Post-catastrophe dystopia in which people live in large families, and birth is regulated to those deemed worthy and awarded a banner. The original story is about a young woman who has a bannerless child. The novel expands this to a deeper consideration of the society.\ See 2018 Vaughn, The Wild Dead. A Bannerless Saga Novel for a related work.\
}, year = {2017}, month = {01/2017}, publisher = {Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt}, address = {Boston, MA}, note = {Originated with a story with the same title in The End Has Come. The Apocalypse Triptych. Ed. John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey (Np: Editors, 2015), 5-22.\
Rpt. in\ The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume 1. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade Books, 2016), 181-199;\ in The Year{\textquoteright}s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin{\textquoteright}s Griffin, 2016), 181-96 with an editor{\textquoteright}s note on 181; and in her Amaryllis and Other Stories (Bonney Lake, WA: Fairwood Press, 2016), 267-89.\
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