![]() ![]() Pre-Fall humans managed to save birth control and solar panels – but lost cameras and latex gloves. The Fall, when it came, wasn’t an event, but more like a series of small catastrophes that took years to fully unfold. Vaughn has built an intriguing world in Bannerless (which is likely the first book in a series of mysteries that Enid will confront), one that feels just plausible enough to believe. As you’d expect, the situation is more complicated than it first appears. ![]() She and her investigative partner Tomas are sent to a nearby community to decide if a death is suspicious. Enter Enid, an investigator, whose job it is to settle disputes and uncover quota violations. There are, however, always those folks who think the laws don’t apply specifically to them. It’s a system that seems agreeable to most. In order to limit the drain on all they’ve worked to hold on to, couples must earn ‘‘banners’’ in order to reproduce. They’ve agreed to live by a system of quotas for everything from grain production to resource consumption. ![]() People along the Coast Road, a temperate zone subject to seasonal devastating storms, have learned to live in harmony with the world. Humanity nevertheless persists – thrives, really, given the circumstances. ![]() In Carrie Vaughn’s Bannerless, the world as we currently know it has fallen, thanks to environmental and economic calamities. Bannerless, Carrie Vaughn ( John Joseph Adams/Mariner 978-0-6, $14.99, 288pp, tp) July 2017. ![]()
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