The Gold Coast

Kim Stanley Robinson

Dec 2013 · Three Californias Triptych Book 2 · Macmillan + ORM

About this ebook

The Gold Coast, set an alternative future of ecological collapse, is the second novel in Kim Stanley Robinson's Three Californias trilogy.

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.

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Ratings and reviews

A brilliant, anticipatory exercise in literature. That it is categorized as science fiction is only a technicality. The interludes regarding the history of land development in southern California are accurate. And despite taking its own place as a work of post modern literature, its own exploration of what might come after is magnificently ironic commentary.

About the author

Kim Stanley Robinson's Three Californias trilogy -- The Wild Shore, The Gold Coast, and Pacific Edge -- has been observed as "an intriguing work, one that will delight and entertain you, and, most importantly, cause you to stop and think" (The Santa Ana Register). His many other novels include Escape from Kathmandu and Green Mars -- which won the Hugo and Locus Award for Best Novel.