Christopher Brown Is The Author Of 'Tropic Of Kansas'
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2018
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Christopher Brown is the author of Tropic of Kansas, a dystopian novel that was a finalist for the 2018 Campbell Award for the best science fiction novel of the year. His novel Rule of Capture, the beginning of a series of speculative legal thrillers, is forthcoming from Harper in 2019.
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 and essays have appeared in a variety of magazines and anthologies. He lives in Austin, Texas, where he also practices technology law.
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| 0:25.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to Future Tech Podcast. I'm your host Juliet Lamar and joining us today is |
| 0:34.3 | Christopher Brown. He is the author of Tropic of Kansas which is a |
| 0:38.7 | dystopian novel that was a finalist of 2018 Campbell Awards for Best Science Fiction Novel of the Year. |
| 0:45.6 | He is also a technology lawyer. |
| 0:47.3 | He is a man of many, many talents and we're very excited to have him on today. |
| 0:51.3 | So welcome, Christopher. Thank you Julia. |
| 0:53.7 | Glad to be here. Absolutely. Let's you know let's dive right into |
| 0:57.8 | drop of Kansas. Give people a little bit of an overview about the book and maybe |
| 1:02.1 | why it's just it's such a hit in our present day. |
| 1:04.8 | Well, Tropic of Kansas is kind of a dystopian road trip through a sort of distorted |
| 1:12.4 | mirror America. |
| 1:14.0 | It's a story of a brother and sister trapped in a United States |
| 1:19.0 | who's kind of falling apart and strained by political tensions that are finally breaking it into |
| 1:27.8 | multiple pieces and trying to find their way through this sort of darkening time to a better future. |
| 1:38.0 | The book opens when a young |
| 1:43.7 | who is a, has been rendered a fugitive |
| 1:46.7 | due to the political activities of his parents |
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