Bannerless

2017 Vaughn, Carrie (b. 1973). Bannerless. Boston, MA: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 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’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2016), 181-96 with an editor’s note on 181; and in her Amaryllis and Other Stories (Bonney Lake, WA: Fairwood Press, 2016), 267-89. Public

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. Female author.