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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
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, and was a finalist for the 2018 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel 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
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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
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in 2019. Brown lives in
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, where he is a member of the Turkey City Writer's Workshop and also practices technology law.


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Christopher Brown at the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
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