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Christopher Brown
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The Secret History of Empty Lots
I am delighted to share the news that my book The Secret History of Empty Lots, a work of narrative nonfiction about urban nature and how to find the path to a greener, rewilded future, building on the same material as my Field Notes newsletter, will be published by Timber Press, which is part of Hachette Book Group. We are targeting fall of 2024 for publication, and I am excited to get to work on
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Tropic of Kansas
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2017
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Rule of Capture (Dystopian Lawyer, #1)
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2019
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Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic
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2011
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Failed State (Dystopian Lawyer, #2)
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2020
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Failed State: A Novel (Dystopian Lawyer Book 2):
"A thoroughly enjoyable 4.5 here. You can see definite development in the author and that made this a very smooth read.
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"This near-future science fiction legal thriller is almost distressingly on the nose and has a creepingly prescient feel about it, especially given real ongoing trends in the uses of legal mechanisms to enable and enforce increasingly dystopian ideolo"
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Rule of Capture (Dystopian Lawyer, #1):
"In dystopian fiction, some authors envision a future along the lines of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, a nightmarish post-apocalyptic world in which a trickle of survivors struggle to survive. Others picture a time yet to come when a tyrannical state en"
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“Tania had the young lawyer’s idea that the rule of law restrained the exercise of executive power. But the truth she now understood was that law merely served power, like the devil’s butler. Sampling the hundreds of thousands of entries, she saw how they had lawyered the thing up to make it look legit, even as its arbitrary and political character was evident on its face. The standard for inclusion was low—reasonable suspicion. Of what, exactly, the law was no longer terribly worried about making clear. Suspicion of whatever qualities the people in charge of eliminating seditious threats during the twenty-plus-year state of emergency thought made it worth a tag.”
― Tropic of Kansas
― Tropic of Kansas
“All the ways to break mind and body they had developed fighting people on the other side of the world, they now used on their own people, justifying it by saying their treason had forfeited their citizenship. Made them stateless aliens, without real rights.”
― Tropic of Kansas
― Tropic of Kansas
“I guess you prefer the news with artificial blondes reading corporate scripts,” said Xelina. “Honestly,”
― Rule of Capture
― Rule of Capture
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