Nominee · John W. Campbell Memorial Award 1989
The Gold Coast
novel by Kim Stanley Robinson
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.
Synopsis from Open Library.
- Language
- English
- Genre
- science fiction
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