Christopher Brown

For anyone who doubts these processes -- or humanity's power to alter our planet -- consider this dispatch from the poles: Human-caused warming has already melted so much ice in Greenland and Antarctica that Earth's rotation has slowed and its axis has shifted, slightly altering the length of the day and disrupting the precision of satellite tracking, global positioning systems and timekeeping.

oh my god

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/o...

Southlands / Edgelands Field notes from a post-industrial menagerie

My piece on the weird wildness of the petrochemical Texas coast, for the inaugural issue of @boyceupholt.bsky.social’s amazing new print magazine Southlands, is now up for online reading on this side of the paywall (with a bunch of photos to boot): southlandsmag.com/southlands-e...

Thanks, Derryl!

That first sentence!

Thank you 🙏🪾

Thank you! 🙏💚

Come for the skulls, stay for the canine homunculus and herons and more.

Skull season And some book news (No. 191)

Skull Season - this week's Field Notes from Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social
"The naturally-occurring folk horror of the urban woods is an addicting thing. Experienced through regular ambles over the course of multiple seasons, it reveals the story of the food chain in the land"

Already looking forward to the new book

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Skull season And some book news (No. 191)

Winter's end in the weird woods aided by a canine homunculus, urban heron rookeries behind the old warehouses, dystopian auspices in the airport flyover, and news about a new book, in this week's Field Notes: fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/skull-season

Thanks, Fred!

Ha! Need to come out to So Cal to research part of this one so hopefully we can get out for a walk in your general vicinity 🌾💚

Thanks, Clay!

The cover of Paul McAuley's new novel Loss Protocol.

Currently £5 off the cover price of Loss Protocol if you order it from Forbidden Planet. #justsaying

Thanks, Chad!

Deal announcement of new Christopher Brown narrative nonfiction book Field Notes from a Near Future.

Stoked to share this news from yesterday’s Publishers Marketplace, and excited to spend the coming summer tracking robots and monsters across our increasingly dystopian landscape. With luck I will also find some hidden portals into greener futures: www.publishersmarketplace.com/deals/ss.cgi...

Books I’ve read, spotted in current ebooks sales:

- Stamped from the Beginning by @ibramxk.bsky.social

- The Disordered Cosmos by @chanda.blacksky.app

- A Natural History of Empty Lots by @christopherbrown.bsky.social

- Model Home by @riverssolomon.bsky.social

Did you see the bittern?

standing in the sun, looking for a rare bird in an urban pond next to the 3D printed cement houses at what used to be the airport has me feeling like a character in piece of @christopherbrown.bsky.social fiction

Loss Protocol Eight years after the catastrophic downfall of the cult his sister Izzy had joined, Marc Winters has at last found a refuge from unwanted attention. The wildlif

Paul said there is no firm US publication date. But look, you can order it right now for less than $26 delivered in the US from this link:

blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

Probably will get distributed here 3-6 months after UK release. I bet you can order copies for import now from UK booksellers.

Thank you so much for checking it out! I’m glad to hear you enjoyed it 🙏

This is the most vividly realized vision of a rewilding future I’ve read—intensely real and wondrously magical at the same time, and an emotionally engaging story of people not far from us, finding hope in the planetary elegy. Highly recommended:

Chicago coyote cameo

A Natural History of Empty Lots An "instant classic", this genre-bending blend of naturalism, memoir, and social manifesto is a fascinating study for rewilding the city, the self,...

Looks like the ebook of Empty Lots is momentarily on sale for $3.99 across all platforms: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/chris...

Armadillo emerging from its backyard burrow

Heading into Wednesday like

Always awesome when someone gets what you were trying to do 👇

Interesting experience of being vitally steered by a blurb, which described the protagonist as 'part Huck, part Conan'. The Conan bit is really important, and otherwise I fear I might have sniffily resented the relentlessness of the character as two-dimensional when in fact it's consciously mythic.

Odd times to read Tropic of Kansas by @christopherbrown.bsky.social. Eerily nails details of our moment's fractured, stochastic tyranny - the aesthetics of a certain kind of violence in particular.