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    The Gold Coast: Three Californias

    By Kim Stanley Robinson

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    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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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateDec 31, 2013
    ISBN9781466861336
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    The Gold Coast: Three Californias
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    Kim Stanley Robinson

    Kim Stanley Robinson was born in 1952. After travelling and working around the world, he settled in his beloved California. He is widely regarded as the finest science fiction writer working today, noted as much for the verisimilitude of his characters as the meticulously researched scientific basis of his work. He has won just about every major sf award there is to win and is the author of the massively successful and highly praised ‘Mars’ series.

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    • 2/5
      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 together. Even by the end of the book where all the loose ends do get tied together, it still feels unsatisfying and as if a lot of the story details had nothing whatsoever to do with the plot or even the important characters. I just did not find this that enjoyable.
    • 5/5
      The triptych future closest to our own.
    • 4/5
      Possibly the most heartbreaking of the three, this novel grapples with the question of what one person can accomplish in the face of the great industrial machine.
    • 2/5
      The premise of this novel is an interesting one: in the near future, in an overdeveloped Orange County, California, a dissatisfied poet becomes involved with industrial terrorists bent on subverting the war and weapons industry, in which his father is employed. But the writing is stilted and disjointed and interrupted at odd points by rather nonsensical poems. And Robinson’s vision of the future doesn’t ring true either. Even writing at the end of the 1980s and able to foresee sprawl run amuck and auto-piloted cars on unending freeways, he still completely overlooks the importance of the Internet or digital information in future society. The presence of videotapes and CDs in Robinson’s 2027 now makes the novel seem hopelessly dated.
    • 4/5
      Part of Kim Stanley Robinson's Three Californias trilogy, The Gold Coast is an alternative view of life in the 21st century. The writing style is unique and was a little annoying and distracting at first. However, once I got used to it, I found myself totally engrossed in the story. Periodically dissected by poetry, the story is riveting and the book hard to put down. The themes of globalisation, corporatisation and conquest are explored thoroughly and well, and the sense that there is something missing from today's fast-paced society is expressed well. This is definitely worth reading.
    • 5/5
      I love this novel. I've reread it 3x and never get tired of it. Great characters, some of KSR's best prose, and a thoughtful story. If I won the Powerball, the first thing I would do (OK, maybe not the first, but it would be right up there) would be to acquire the rights to turn this book into a miniseries. I'm a shameless prosletyzer for KSR's novels and I believe the last (and, hopefully, the next) 20 years will eventually be seen as the era when sci-fi's greatest novelist created some of the genre's most enduring classics.
    • 4/5
      Echoes of the beat poets in a cyberpunk setting. Very enjoyable and tragic at the same time.