Description: "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 "[A] real page turner." - Gavin J. Grant, Bram Stoker Award-winning editor and author "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 savvy political thriller meets ripping pulp adventure-a marriage made in page-turning, thought-provoking heaven. It''s a vision both frighteningly prescient and already too real, and a story of valiant heart and brain up against the worst architectures of greed and power." - Jessica Reisman, SESFA award-winning author of Substrate Phantoms "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 "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 Miville." - Booklist "Fun, fast, violent, smart, and with enough adventure and science fiction elements to keep fans of both genres happy, this was more than a superb novel: it was the kind of book that announces the arrival of an author at the top of his game." - LitReactor (Best of 2017) "This wildly audacious alternate history pits a black lawyer and her semi-feral stepbrother against a paranoid U.S. government defending its ex-movie-star president, who was maimed during a foiled assassination attempt. This funny, heart-wrenching book cuts through genre expectations with the speed of a jackhammer." - Seattle Times "A new mutation of the alternate history novel." - Norman Spinrad (Asimov''s Science Fiction Magazine) "The great American novel about the end of America. This book is marvelously propulsive, big hearted, and whip smart." - Kelly Link, Pulitzer Prize-nominated author of Get in Trouble "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.org "Tropic of Kansas is a great novel. Brown''s writing is tightly composed, and flows nicely...Definitely recommended." - Civilian Reader "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 Magazine

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