Vaughn, Carrie

Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.

(1973- ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Girl with the Pre-Raphaelite Hair" in Talebones for Fall 1999; it was assembled in Amaryllis and Other Stories (coll 2016). This collection, plus her first, Straying from the Path (coll 2011), both contain material ranging widely through the remit of contemporary Fantastika, the second including stories like The Best We Can (first appeared July 2013 Tor.com; 2013 ebook), about a thwarted First Contact.

Her full-length fiction has been oriented to Young Adult markets, including the long Kitty Norville sequence, beginning with Kitty and the Midnight Hour (2005), featuring the eponymous Werewolf, whose day job as a DJ involves her in complicated adventures, and romance [for Urban Fantasy see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below]. The much-abducted protagonist of the Young Adult Golden Age sequence beginning with After the Golden Age (2011) is the emotionally retarded twenty-something daughter of Superheroes, whose dedication to their missions she resents. On the other hand, the Bannerless sequence beginning with Bannerless (2017) focuses mostly on the protagonist as an adult, though some scenes narrate her coming-of-age. The series is set in a Near Future California afflicted by Climate Change and rising seas; in this precarious environment, a Utopian society has been established, with reproduction strictly controlled, though this policy incurs some negative responses. Bannerless won the Philip K Dick Award. In the second volume, The Wild Dead: A Bannerless Saga Novel (2018), the body of a young woman from beyond the Polder is found, shaking the small world.

Vaughn's first standalone novels are Young Adult fantasies, though Martians Abroad (2017) is rather defiantly sf, with a young protagonist (and her genius male twin) from Mars, whose forced involvement in Terran Politics frustrates her longing to become a Starship pilot. [JC]

Carrie Vaughn

born Mather Air Force Base, Sacramento, California: 28 January 1973

works

series

Kitty Norville

Kitty and the Midnight Hour (New York: Warner Books, 2005) [Kitty Norville: pb/Craig White]
Kitty Goes to Washington (New York: Warner Books, 2006) [Kitty Norville: pb/Don Puckey]
Kitty Takes a Holiday (New York: Warner Books, 2007) [Kitty Norville: pb/Craig White]
- Long Time Listener, First Time Werewolf (New York: Science Fiction Book Club, 2007) [omni of the above three with added story: Kitty Norville: hb/Gordon Crabb]
Kitty and the Silver Bullet (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2008) [Kitty Norville: pb/Craig White]
Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2009) [Kitty Norville: pb/Craig White]
Kitty Raises Hell (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2009) [Kitty Norville: pb/Craig White]
Kitty's House of Horrors (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2009) [Kitty Norville: pb/Craig White]
Kitty Goes to War (New York: Tor, 2010) [Kitty Norville: pb/Craig White]
Kitty's Big Trouble (New York: Tor, 2011) [Kitty Norville: pb/Craig White]
Kitty's Greatest Hits (New York: Tor, 2011) [coll of linked stories: Kitty Norville: pb/Craig White]
Kitty Steals the Show (New York: Tor, 2012) [Kitty Norville: pb/Craig White]
Kitty Rocks the House (New York: Tor, 2013) [Kitty Norville: pb/Craig White]
Kitty in the Underworld (New York: Tor, 2013) [Kitty Norville: pb/Craig White]
Kitty Rocks the House (New York: Tor, 2013) [Kitty Norville: pb/Craig White]
Low Midnight (New York: Tor, 2014) [Kitty Norville: pb/Craig White]
Kitty Saves the World (New York: Tor, 2015) [Kitty Norville: pb/Craig White]
The Immortal Conquistador (San Francisco, California: Tachyon, 2020) [Kitty Norville: pb/Rebecca Harp]
Kitty's Mix-Tape (San Francisco, California: Tachyon, 2020) [coll: Kitty Norville: pb/]

Golden Age

After the Golden Age (New York: Tor, 2011) [Golden Age: hb/Colin Anderson]
Dreams of the Golden Age (New York: Tor, 2014) [Golden Age: hb/]

The Bannerless Saga

Bannerless (Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin/Mariner Books/A John Joseph Adams Book, 2017) [Bannerless Saga: pb/Jackie Shepherd]
The Wild Dead: A Bannerless Saga Novel (Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin/Mariner Books/A John Joseph Adams Book, 2018) [Bannerless Saga: pb/Mark R Robinson]

Locksley Chronicles

The Ghosts of Sherwood (New York: Tor.com, 2020) [Locksley Chronicles: pb/]
Heirs of Locksley (New York: Tor.com, 2020) [Locksley Chronicles: pb/]

individual titles

Voices of Dragons (New York: HarperTeen, 2010) [hb/Larry Rostant]
Discord's Apple (New York: Tor, 2010) [hb/]
Steel (New York: HarperTeen, 2011) [hb/Larry Rostant]
Martians Abroad (New York: Tor, 2017) [hb/Paul Youll]
Long Is the Way (New York: Tor.com, 2019) with Sage Walker [ebook: tie to the Wild Cards universe: first appeared 15 May 2019 Tor.com: Wild Cards: na/]
Questland (Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin/A John Joseph Adams Book, 2021) [pb/]

collections and stories

Straying from the Path (Washington, District of Columbia: WSFA Press, 2011) [coll: hb/Susan Justice]
The Best We Can (New York: Tor.com, 2013) [story: ebook: first appeared July 2013 Tor.com: na/Greg Ruth]
Nuestra Señora de la Esperanza (New York: Tor.com, 2014) [story: ebook: first appeared October 2014 Tor.com: na/John Picacio]
Amaryllis and Other Stories (Bonney Lake, Washington: Fairwood Press, 2016) [coll: pb/Elena Vizerskaya]
Paranormal Bromance (Bonney Lake, Washington: Fairwood Press, 2018) [novella: hb/]

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