“Seriously cool.” — Gardner Dozois
“One of the few, the proud, the elite: a science fiction writer who can genuinely outdo the aberrant weirdness in contemporary headlines.” — Bruce Sterling
“JG Ballard with a Texas twang.” — SF Site
“Nastily funny.” — Locus
“A hot up-and-coming sf writer whose prose is slick, post-Gibsonian, and funny as hell, like Neal Stephenson meets Hunter S. Thompson.” — Cory Doctorow
“The strangest, farthest out piece of fiction I’ve ever read.” — If Then Else
“Brown’s prose is effortless. He pulls off fanciful imagery and dry humor with a distinctive flair. And between the sidewise smirks, there’s enough oblique political digging to make Jon Stewart proud.” — Tangent
“Borges in a pop culture blender.” — Invisible Library
“Gonzo SF…Like a cross between William Gibson and Mark Leyner.” — Boing Boing
“Chris Brown is keeping cyberpunk alive with his wicked, apocalyptic, war-on-terror humor.” — RU Sirius
- “Some Other Modulations” – Papercuts (the magazine of the Desi Writer’s Lounge) – July 2017
- “Festival” – Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany – August 2015
- “Countermeasures” – Twelve Tomorrows (MIT Technology Review SF Annual) – September 2014
- “Sovereign Wealth” – Rayguns Over Texas – August 2013
- “A Fortress of Solitude for Two” – Architectural Review Asia Pacific #125 – June/July 2012
“Edge Lands” – The Baffler #19 – March 2012- Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic (co-edited with Eduardo Jimenez Mayo) – Small Beer Press – January 2012 2013 World Fantasy Award Nominee
- “Medusa” – Flurb #11 – Spring-Summer 2011
- “Windsor Executive Solutions” (with Bruce Sterling) – Futurismic – 5 April 2010 – Also in Gothic High Tech by Bruce Sterling, Subterranean Press, December 2011
- “Nomadology” – Strange Horizons – November 2009
- “The Sun Also Explodes” – Fast Forward 2 – Pyr Books – October 2008
“Wild Tchoupitoulas” – Spicy Slipstream Stories – Lethe Press – August 2008- “R.P.M.” – Futurismic – February 2007
- “The Bunker of the Tikriti” – Cross Plains Universe Robert E. Howard Centennial Anthology (2006 World Fantasy Convention) – Co-publication of MonkeyBrain Books and F.A.C.T. – November 2006
- “Welcome Back Qatar” – RevolutionSF – May 2006
- “Les Derniers Jours d’Hervé” – Space Squid – July 2005
- “Barflies” – Space Squid – July 2005
- “Ghulistan Bust-out” – ADVENTURE, Vol. 1 – MonkeyBrain Books – 2005
- “Suburbia Deserta” – RevolutionSF – June 2005 (originally published in Paper Radio #12)
“Immaculate Perception” – Argosy #3 – Spring 2005- “Prisoners of Uqbaristan” – Strange Horizons – October 18, 2004
- “Script-Doctoring the Apocalypse” – The Infinite Matrix – December 2003
- “The Launch Pad” – Argosy #1 – Fall 2003
- “A Brief History of Negative Space” – RevolutionSF – June 2002