“I can’t remember a legal thriller having made me cry before—though I suppose terrifyingly near-future compassionate dystopian SF is another story. Rule of Capture is both.”

—The Mossy Skull

Praise for Tropic of Kansas

“Futurist as provocateur! The world is sheer bat-shit genius . . . a truly hallucinatorily envisioned environment.”

—William Gibson, New York Times bestselling and award-winning author

“The great American novel about the end of America. This book is marvelously propulsive, bighearted, and whip-smart.”

—Kelly Link, Pulitzer Prize–nominated author of Get in Trouble

“This vision of the future is violent, unforgiving, and bleak: Cormac McCarthy meets Philip K. Dick. It’s disturbing because of how believable it is . . . It’s remarkably effective. Recommended for fans of Paolo Bacigalupi and China Miéville.”

—Booklist

“Timely, dark, and ultimately hopeful: it might not ‘make America great again,’ but then again, it just might.”

—Cory Doctorow, New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Homeland

“Tropic of Kansas is like a modern dystopian buffet. . . . It is, in this particular moment in history, frighteningly prescient. It is the nightly news with the volume turned up to 11.”

—NPR

“This funny, heart-wrenching book cuts through genre expectations with the speed of a jackhammer.”

—Seattle Times

“This book is a powerful vision of an America that might be, an America that some nights seems as though it is all too likely to be, filled with powerful characters and a chilling presentiment of how far our country could fall . . . a novel well worth reading.”

—San Francisco Book Review

“Tropic [of Kansas] is a knockout first novel, paradoxically solemn yet exuberant, restrained yet inventive, as attested to by well-deserved encomiums from William Gibson, Bruce Sterling and Cory Doctorow.”

—Locus

“A new mutation of the alternate-history novel.”

—Norman Spinrad (Asimov’s Science Fiction )

“This stunning novel of a time all too easily imaginable as our own highlights a few of the keen-voiced, brave-souled women and men who balance like subversive acrobats on society’s whirling edges . . . Read it to burn with the joy of realistic hope.”

—Nisi Shawl, Tiptree Award–winning author of Everfair and Writing the Other

“A unique blend of Philip K. Dick, Kafka (just a smidgen), and a whole lot of Christopher Brown. Adventure novel meets political satire and the finest elements of realistic sci-fi, and it’s so well written it goes down like a greased eel. It’s hopeful dystopia. What a book.”

—Joe R. Lansdale, author of the Hap and Leonard series

“Tropic of Kansas is the tale of a politically desperate USA haunted by a sullen, feral teen who is Huck Finn, Conan, and Tarzan. Because it’s Chris Brown’s own imaginary America, this extraordinary novel is probably more American than America itself will ever get.”

—Bruce Sterling, award-winning author of Islands in the Net and Pirate Utopia

“Tropic of Kansas is a great novel. Brown’s writing is tightly composed, and flows nicely . . . Definitely recommended.”

—Civilian Reader