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The Gold Coast

The Three Californias Triptych, Book 2

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The Gold Coast

By: Kim Stanley Robinson
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
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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.

©2013 Kim Stanley Robinson (P)2015 Blackstone Audio, Inc. and Skyboat Media, Inc. Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Fiction
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I found all the drugs and gratuitous sex boring, and the plot wondering. Lots of ugly California history and plausible description of corruption in military procurement.

might have gone over better 35 years ago.

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I liked the first one, I’ll probably leave this one half read and move on to the third. Not clear enough in the plot or world building.

I’m glad it was free?

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I’ve made it nearly halfway through and am still struggling to figure it out. What is this about?
I’m really disappointed. KSR is usually a reliable author, but this has been a waste of time and money.

I can’t even figure out the plot!

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