The Gold Coast
The Three Californias Triptych: Book #2
- By: Kim Stanley Robinson
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 14 hours 59 minutes
Description
This second book in Kim Stanley Robinson’s richlydetailed Three Californias triptych reveals a second, all-too-plausiblepossible future for Orange County.
North America, 2027. Southern California is adeveloper’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 ina world of fast cars, casual sex, and designer drugs. But his descent in to theshadowy underground of industrial terrorism brings him into a shatteringconfrontation with his family, his goals, and his ideals.
TheGold Coast is an epic work of science fiction thatexplores a grim future and what one man can do to turn the tides.
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The Gold Coast
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 14 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
This second book in Kim Stanley Robinson’s richlydetailed Three Californias triptych reveals a second, all-too-plausiblepossible future for Orange County.
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