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      The Gold Coast

      by Kim Stanley Robinson
      Published
      Nov 1988
      Main Genre
      Science Fiction Sci-Fi
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      389
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      Series
      Three Californias Book 2

      About This Book

      "Bold, manic, wonderful," this dystopian sci-fi thriller imagines ecological collapse in an alternative future California (Los Angeles Times).


      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.



      "Owes more to 1984 and A Clockwork Orange than to the usual SF scenario. . . . Robinson offers a stark cautionary tale with a glimmer of hope at the end." —Publishers Weekly


      "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." —Washington Post

      Series Placement

      Book 2
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      Speculative Fiction

      Subgenres

      Alternative History Science Fiction

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      First Edition Nov 1988 Tor ISBN13 9780812552393 ISBN10 0812552393
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      Jan 1988 St. Martin's ISBN13 9780312930509 ISBN10 031293050X
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