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This second book in Kim Stanley Robinson s richly detailed Three Californias triptych reveals a second, all-too-plausible possible future for Orange County.North America, 2027. Southern California is a developer s dream gone mad, an endless sprawl of condos, freeways, and malls. Jim McPherson, the affluent son of a defense contractor, is a young man lost in a world of fast cars, casual sex, and designer drugs. But his descent in to the shadowy underground of industrial terrorism brings him into a shattering confrontation with his family, his goals, and his ideals."The Gold Coast "is an epic work of science fiction that explores a grim future and what one man can do to turn the tides."
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Review:
"What a bold, manic, wonderful book this is!" --"Los Angeles Times"
"A rich, brave book . . . It celebrates, with an earned and elated refusal of despair, the persistent, joyful survival of human persons in the interstices of the American juggernaut." --"The Washington Post"
"Like light focused into coherent beam, "The Gold Coast" brilliantly illuminates the craziness of technology out of control." --"Interzone "
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"A rich, brave book . . . It celebrates, with an earned and elated refusal of despair, the persistent, joyful survival of human persons in the interstices of the American juggernaut." --"The Washington Post"
"Like light focused into coherent beam, "The Gold Coast" brilliantly illuminates the craziness of technology out of control." --"Interzone "
What a bold, manic, wonderful book this is! "Los Angeles Times"
A rich, brave book . . . It celebrates, with an earned and elated refusal of despair, the persistent, joyful survival of human persons in the interstices of the American juggernaut. "The Washington Post"
Like light focused into coherent beam, "The Gold Coast" brilliantly illuminates the craziness of technology out of control. "Interzone""
"What a bold, manic, wonderful book this is!" --Los Angeles Times
"A rich, brave book . . . It celebrates, with an earned and elated refusal of despair, the persistent, joyful survival of human persons in the interstices of the American juggernaut." --The Washington Post
"Like light focused into coherent beam, The Gold Coast brilliantly illuminates the craziness of technology out of control." --Interzone
Orange County, California, in the 21st Century. Designer drugs, freeways that glide, soar and loop through the landscape; it's a mass-culture, video-saturated world, and the living looks easy...
Jim McPherson, a twenty-seven-year-old adrift in this affluent society, lives his life through the dreams of the past. Dennis, his father, is an aerospace engineer deeply involved in military research, a fact that Jim ignores – until he becomes a minor urban terrorist out of boredom. The lives of father and son, separate for so long, are finally on a collision course.
Kim Stanley Robinson has created an ironic, multi-layered vision of life in the 21st Century, which will enhance his reputation as one of the finest SF writers of the late twentieth century.
"Robinson's Orange County books make their market-place competitors look trivial"
THE GUARDIAN
"Robinson's writing ranks in the highest levels of the genre"
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
"Robinson is a skilful and intelligent writer"
INTERZONE
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- PublisherBlackstone Pub
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1481529838
- ISBN 13 9781481529839
- BindingAudio CD
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