The Gold Coast: Three Californias

Kim Stanley Robinson

Tom Doherty Associates, May 15, 1995 - Fiction - 389 pages

The Gold Coast, set an alternative future of ecological collapse, is the second novel in Kim Stanley Robinson's Three Californias trilogy.

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.

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User Review  - bness2 - LibraryThing

This book was very disappointing after reading the first book in the series. It lacked the focus and clear plot lines of the first book, and felt like an aimless series of events not all that tied ...

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User Review  - thegreattim - LibraryThing

Welcome To Sunny Orange County, CA I just finished, last week, the "second" novel in Kim Stanley Robinson's "Three Californias" series, also know as the "Orange County Trilogy" or the "California ...

About the author

Kim Stanley Robinson's Three Californias trilogy -- The Gold Coast, The Wild Shore and Pacific Edge -- has been observed as "an intriguing work, one that will delight and entertain you, and, most importantly, cause you to stop and think" (The Santa Ana Register). His many other novels include Escape from Kathmandu and Green Mars -- which won the Hugo and Locus Award for Best Novel.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Gold Coast: Three Californias; Book 2 of Three Californias, Kim Stanley Robinson
• Author: Kim Stanley Robinson
• Edition: reprint, revised
• Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates, 1995
• ISBN: 0312890370, 9780312890377
• Length: 389 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Alternative History; Fiction / Nature & the Environment; Fiction / Science Fiction / Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic