Tropic of Kansas: A Novel by Christopher Brown

“Futurist as provocateur! the area is sheer batshit genius . . . a very hallucinatorily expected environment.”—William Gibson, New York Times bestselling and award-winning author

“Timely, darkish, and eventually hopeful: it could possibly no longer ‘make the US nice again,’ yet however, it simply might.”—Cory Doctorow, New York Times bestselling and award profitable writer of Homeland

Acclaimed brief tale author and editor of the area fable Award-nominee Three Messages and a caution eerily envisions an American society unraveling and our borders closed off—from the opposite side—in this haunting and provocative novel that mixes Max Barry’s Jennifer Government, Philip ok. Dick’s vintage Man within the excessive Castle, and China Mieville’s The urban & the City

The us of a isn't any extra. damaged into warring territories, its heart has develop into a desert DMZ often called “the Tropic of Kansas.” even though this gaping geographic gap has no transparent obstacles, we all know it really is out there—that once-bountiful a part of the heartland, damaged through greed and exploitation, the place forget now breeds unrest. tourists seem during this arid American wasteland: Sig, the fugitive orphan of political dissidents, and his foster sister Tania, a central authority investigator whose look for Sig leads her into her personal past—and in the direction of an unforeseen future.

Sig promised these he loves that he could make it to the progressive redoubt of occupied New Orleans. yet first he needs to live on the wild edgelands of a barren mid-America policed by means of citizen militias and self reliant drones, the place one unsuitable stream can suggest trap . . . or dying. One step at the back of, undercover within the underground, is Tania. Her infiltration of clandestine networks made up of previous know-how and new politics quickly transforms her into the hunted one, and offers her a shot at being the agent of actual change—if she is keen to renounce the explosive govt secrets and techniques she has sworn to guard.

As brother and sister traverse those colossal and unsafe badlands, their paths will finally intersect at the entrance strains of a revolution whose fuse they're approximately to light.