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Set at the end of the 21st century in California, this story revolves around a seemingly perfect society. At first, bio-architect Kevin Claiborne thinks he has indeed found Utopia, but gradually events lead him to discover the corruption beneath the surface.
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‘One of the finest working novelists in any genre’
GUARDIAN
'If I had to choose one writer whose work will set the standard for science fiction in the future, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson’
NEW YORK TIMES
The sun beats down from a glorious Orange County sky. People play softball and pedal their flyers above ecologically-sound thermocrete rooftops. The democratically elected council debate environmental issues and make rational decisions for the public good.
To Kevin Claiborne it must be the perfect society. But when he hears of plans to develop Rattlesnake Hill, the last piece of wilderness in the area, he senses the bubbling of corruption below the unblemished surface.
A world and an age away, a young writer sits in an internment camp in Virginia watching the march of events towards global disaster and dreams of utopia...
"Robinson's orange county books make their market-place competitors look trivial"
THE GUARDIAN
"Robinson into what he's best at, the evocation of people in love, people at odds, the delicate inside surfaces of social involution...supremely achieved"
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"Robinson's utopia is intellectually engaging"
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"An outstanding achievement...Robinson's writing ranks in the highest levels of the genre"
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- PublisherCollins
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0586214577
- ISBN 13 9780586214572
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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