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Virtual Memories Show 332:
\nChristopher Brown<\/a><\/p>\n

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“If you want to have a healthy society, people need to believe there is justice and accountability for people who do bad things. The problem in this society is that it’s a really bottom-heavy system.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>He wowed us last year<\/a> with Tropic of Kansas<\/a>\"\", and now Christopher Brown<\/a> is back to talk about his brand-new dystopian legal thriller, Rule of Capture<\/a>\"\" (both from Harper Voyager)! We get into his grand jury stint a few years ago and how it brought home to him the inequality of the law and led to this new novel, why there are so few lawyers in science fiction<\/a> (but so many in comic books), and the challenge of writing a novel about the law as opposed the facts of a legal case. Along the way, we get into his search for utopia and why he’s eschewing dystopia with this next novel, the phenomenon of Texan billboard-lawyers (like his novel’s protagonist, Donny Kimoe), his love of Njals saga<\/em><\/a>, the Icelandic poem about a lawyer who’s ridiculed by other vikings because he can’t grow a beard, the little capitulations we make that lead to the domestication of evil, his unsung legal heroes, and what one should or shouldn’t do if one finds oneself on an escalator behind a certain Supreme Court Justice. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go buy Rule of Capture<\/a>\"\"! (and check out our 2018 episode<\/a>)<\/p>\n

“This book provided me an opportunity to do things with the character of the lawyer that my evil lawyer twin might wish to do in real life.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n