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Dec. 24th, 2019 04:30 pm197. Bannerless, Carrie Vaughn
Forty or more years after a flu epidemic destroyed technological civilization, humanity is rebuilding carefully and sustainably. Politics are entirely local, because the only units that matter are a household, a village, and the Coast Road: a trading structure that runs up and down the Pacific Coast. Nobody is enslaved, nobody is exploited: everyone works. But things happen, and there is a a voluntary police force -- insofar as it has authority, it comes from telling the other villages that this one won't uphold the social contract, can't be trusted.
In that setting, a murder mystery.
Forty or more years after a flu epidemic destroyed technological civilization, humanity is rebuilding carefully and sustainably. Politics are entirely local, because the only units that matter are a household, a village, and the Coast Road: a trading structure that runs up and down the Pacific Coast. Nobody is enslaved, nobody is exploited: everyone works. But things happen, and there is a a voluntary police force -- insofar as it has authority, it comes from telling the other villages that this one won't uphold the social contract, can't be trusted.
In that setting, a murder mystery.
