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The Gold Coast
- The Three Californias Triptych, Book 2
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Series: The Three Californias Triptych, Book 2
- Length: 15 hrs
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 06-02-15
- Language: English
- Publisher: Skyboat Media, Inc.
- Whispersync for Voice-ready
Regular price: $24.47
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This second book in Kim Stanley Robinson's richly detailed Three Californias Triptych reveals a second, all-too-plausible possible future for Orange County.
North America, 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 an epic work of science fiction that explores a grim future and what one man can do to turn the tides.
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