Christopher Brown is an American author, who formerly wrote under the name Chris Nakashima-Brown,and is known for writing science fiction.
His first novel, ''Tropic of Kansas'', was published in 2017 by
Harper Voyager
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, and was a finalist for the 2018
John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
The John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, or Campbell Memorial Award, is an annual award presented by the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas to the author of the best science fiction no ...
of the year.
His work frequently focuses on issues at the nexus of technology, politics, economics and ecology. His short fiction and criticism has been published in a variety of anthologies and magazines, including ''MIT Technology Review’s Twelve Tomorrows'', ''LitHub'', ''Tor.com'', ''Reckoning'', and ''The Baffler''.
He was a 2013
World Fantasy Award
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nominee for the anthology he co-edited, ''Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic''.
His novel ''Rule of Capture'', the first in a series of speculative legal thrillers, is scheduled for publication by
Harper Voyager
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in 2019.
Brown lives in
Austin, Texas
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, where he is a member of the
Turkey City Writer's Workshop Turkey City Writer's Workshop is a peer-to-peer, professional science fiction writer's workshop in Texas. Founded in 1973 and still ongoing today, it was consciously modeled after the east coast Milford Writer's Workshop.Official website