About the Author

Christopher Brown is the author of Tropic of Kansas. He was nominated for a World Fantasy Award for the anthology Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic. His short fiction has appeared in a variety of magazines and anthologies, including MIT Technology Review's "Twelve Tomorrows," The Baffler, and Stories for Chip. He lives in Austin, Texas.

Reviews

&#8220Provides a glimmer of hope that the usurpers of the Constitution may be beaten at their own game, 'one case at a time.' Interpersonal drama fuels the story as much as legal maneuvering, and Brown keeps tight control of his narrative even as this alternate America slips its gears.”
- Publishers Weekly starred review on Rule of Capture&#8220Sharply observed, tightly written. bitterly funny, with the underlying tang of unpleasant truth... [P]ut this one on the shelf next to Orwell.”--Locus on Rule of Capture &#8220This one is fresh, intelligent, and emotional with a plot that envisions an alternate reality hard to dismiss as unreal. It's a legal thriller, with a big twist, stirring and imaginative, brimming with skullduggery, that will have you asking: is this possible?” - New York Times bestselling author Steve Berry on Rule of Capture&#8220A kind of madcap Texas Gothic dark comedy, as the Houston good ole boy network is displayed like a courtroom scene in an unpublished Hunter S. Thompson novel. . . . It moves, rocketing along at a ferocious pace--and then it lingers, haunting you.”
- Cory Doctorow BoingBoing on Rule of Capture“Rule of Capture is a taut, smart legal thriller set five minutes into the future in a dystopian post-war America that looks scarily plausible from the vantage point of 2019, and marks Brown as one of our most tuned-in science fiction writers.”
- Adrian McKinty Edgar and Ned Kelly Award-winning author of The Chain and Rain Dogs on Rule of Capture&#8220Futurist as provocateur! The world is sheer batshit genius . . . a truly hallucinatory environment.”
- William Gibson New York Times bestselling and award-winning author on Tropic of Kansas"The novel is as tense and thrilling as any of Brown's work, and as full
of rage and hope. It's a novel that truly reckons with the enormity of both our climate emergency and the system that produced it - a tale of
human imperfection and redemption." - Cory Doctorow, bestselling author of Walkaway"Brown's larger-than-life near-future legal thriller of environmental collapse and social rebuilding...[he] adds new layers to the wildly imaginative dystopian setting of his first two works, now with an emphasis on environmental law. The scenes of sunken New Orleans are vivid and will keep the pages turning to an overloaded climax that nevertheless sets things up nicely for the next volume. Readers will be eager to see it." - Publishers Weekly