“Christopher Brown is emerging as a Ballardian John McPhee.” — Mark Dery
- “Dystopia as Clickbait: Science Fiction, Doomscrolling, and Reviving the Idea of the Future” – Tor.com – October 14, 2020
- “Christopher Brown: Five Things I Learned Writing Failed State” – Chuck Wendig’s TERRIBLEMINDS – August 18, 2020
- “Truth and Reconciliation and Science Fiction” – Locus – August 20, 2019
- Five Things I Learned Writing Rule of Capture – Chuck Wendig’s TERRIBLEMINDS – August 20, 2019
- “Lawyers in Fiction: It’s Time to Question the Archetype” – CrimeReads – August 14, 2019
“The Big Idea” Behind Rule of Capture – Scalzi’s Whatever – August 13, 2019- “Seven Unlikely Science Fictional Uprisings” – The B&N Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog – August 13, 2019
- “Will There be Justice? Science Fiction and the Law” – Tor.com – August 7, 2019
- “A Natural History of Empty Lots” – Texas Architect – September/October 2017
- “The Summer of Living Dangerously” – Sirens of Suspense – July 17, 2017
- “The Persistence of American Folklore in Fantastic Literature“ – Tor.com – July 13, 2017
- “The Big Idea” Behind Tropic of Kansas – Scalzi’s Whatever – July 13, 2017
- “Dystopia is Realism” – LitHub – July 10, 2017
- “Earth Day in the Edgelands” – Medium – April 22, 2017
- “You’re Fired: Democracy, Dystopia and the Cult of the CEO” – NewCo Shift – March 15, 2016
“The Rule of Capture” – Reckoning 1 – December 2016- “Winter in the Feral City” – Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet – #33 – July 2015
- “Borrowed Palantirs” – Review 90: Literature and Arts of the Americas, Latin America and the Technological Imaginary in the Digital Age – May 2015
- “Global Ear: Austin” – The Wire – November 2015
- “Science Fiction in the Edgelands” – New York Review of Science Fiction – April 2012
- “Mexico and the Atemporal Future” – Revista Digital Universitaria UNAM – February 2011
- “Book Notes: Three Messages and a Warning” – Largehearted Boy – December 2011
- “SF for MFAs” – Necessary Fiction – September 2011
“Some Monster Manuals for the Evasion of Capitalist Networks” – New York Review of Science Fiction – April 2011- “Revolution, Utopia and Science Fiction” – Castálida, 2009
- “Feeling Very Estranged: Science Fiction in the Aftermath of the Twentieth Century” – Mundos Paralelos, 25th Annual Festival de Mexico en el Centro Historico – March 2009 – Also in New York Review of Science Fiction – November 2009
- “Science Fiction in the Year Zero” – The Wiscon Chronicles, Volume Two – Aqueduct Press – May 2008
- “Child of the Diaspora: Sterling on Ballard” – Ballardian – October 7, 2005
“Mixmaster of the Cranial Museum: Paul di Filippo’s Serious Whimsy” – Nova Express – Summer 2002- “The Crime Studio, by Steve Aylett” (review) – Nova Express – Summer 2002
- “Catastrophically Cozy: J.G. Ballard’s Super-Cannes” – RevolutionSF – 2001
