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The Gold Coast

Kim Stanley Robinson · 1988 · Novel

Setting: near future (2027)

Series: Orange County — #2

Synopsis

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 the second novel in Robinson's Three Californias trilogy.

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Metadata

Source: OpenLibrary

Tags: Twenty-first centuryFictionScience fictionCaliforniaCalifornia, fictionFiction, science fiction, generalAmerican Science fictionDystopias

isfdb_id: 1856

openlibrary_id: OL81663W

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