Tropic of Kansas

Futurist as provocateur! The world is sheer bat-shit genius...a truly hallucinatorily envisioned environment. -- William Gibson, <em>New York Times</em> bestselling and award-winning author 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 <em>Get in Trouble</em> 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 Mieville. -- Booklist Timely, dark, and ultimately hopeful: it might not `make America great again,' but then again, it just might. -- <strong>Cory Doctorow, </strong><em>New York Times</em><strong> bestselling and award winning author of </strong><em>Homeland</em> 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 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 <em>Everfair</em> and <em>Writing the Other</em> 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 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 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 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 <em>Islands in the Net</em> and <em>Pirate Utopia</em> Tropic of Kansas is a great novel. Brown's writing is tightly composed, and flows nicely...Definitely recommended. -- Civilian Reader 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 <em>Substrate Phantoms</em> [A] real page turner. -- Gavin J. Grant, Bram Stoker Award-winning editor and author