The Wild Shore: Three Californias

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Macmillan, Mar 15, 1995 - Fiction - 377 pages

The Wild Shore is the first novel in Kim Stanley Robinson's highly-acclaimed Three Californias Trilogy.

2047: For the small Pacific Coast community of San Onofre, life in the aftermath of a devastating nuclear attack is a matter of survival, a day-to-day struggle to stay alive. But young Hank Fletcher dreams of the world that might have been, and might yet be--and dreams of playing a crucial role in America's rebirth.

 

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Contents

Section 1
16
Section 2
32
Section 3
51
Section 4
63
Section 5
79
Section 6
91
Section 7
108
Section 8
125
Section 13
211
Section 14
234
Section 15
242
Section 16
255
Section 17
282
Section 18
303
Section 19
322
Section 20
335

Section 9
139
Section 10
163
Section 11
183
Section 12
197
Section 21
344
Section 22
369
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About the author (1995)

KIM STANLEY ROBINSON is an American science fiction writer. He is the author of more than 20 books, including the international bestselling Mars trilogy: Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars, and more recently Red Moon, New York 2140, and 2312, which was a New York Times bestseller nominated for all seven of the major science fiction awards—a first for any book. 2008 he was named a “Hero of the Environment” by Time magazine, and he works with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute, the Clarion Writers’ Workshop, and UC San Diego’s Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination. He has won the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy awards. In 2016 he was given the Heinlein Award for lifetime achievement in science fiction, and asteroid 72432 was named “Kimrobinson.” In 2017 he was given the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society.

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