'Tropic Of Kansas' Rips Dystopia From The Headlines
Christopher Brown's new book plays out in a world where all our fears have become manifest — the nightly news, turned up to 11. And while there's a hint of hope at the end, this is not a happy book.
In the vast galaxy of science fiction, it is always three minutes 'til doomsday.
There is always some monster, some alien warlord, some catastrophe so imminent that no one has time to pee. Lives are always on the brink. More than ray guns, more than starships, this is the defining characteristic of sci-fi literature. Disaster, within and without.
And as has been said a thousand times by critics far smarter than me, there is nothing that happens in science fiction that is not a
