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Learn moreThis 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.
Kim Stanley Robinson is a New York Times bestseller and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed Forty Signs of Rain, The Years of Rice and Salt and 2312. In 2008, he was named a "Hero of the Environment" by Time magazine, and he works with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute. He lives in Davis, California.
Stefan Rudnicki is an avid audiobook narrator, receiving numerous Earphones Awards from AudioFile magazine. He is also a Grammy-winning audiobook producer.
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โA rich, brave bookโฆIt celebrates, with an earned and elated refusal of despair, the persistent, joyful survival of human persons in the interstices of the American juggernaut.โ
โWhat a bold, manic, wonderful book this is!โ
โLike light focused into coherent beam, The Gold Coast brilliantly illuminates the craziness of technology out of control.โ
โThis fine, bleak look at Orange County, California, owes more to 1984 and A Clockwork Orange than to the usual SF scenarioโฆInterspersed in the story are elegiac views of the history of โOCโ and its possible grim future. Robinson offers a stark cautionary tale with a glimmer of hope at the end.โ
โStefan Rudnickiโs deep voice is a solid match for the disillusioned characters, including burned-out aerospace contractor Dennis McPhersonโฆRudnicki gives his son, Jim, a lighter tone filled with a youthful optimism that is worn away when he begins to take part in antiwar terrorist acts, sabotaging the very technology his father helps to create. Explosive and gripping.โ
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