The Gold Coast

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.
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.
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.
"What a bold, manic, wonderful book this is "--"Los Angeles Times"
"A rich, brave book . . . It celebrates, with an earned and elated refusal of despair, the persistent, joyful survival of human persons in the interstices of the American juggernaut."--"The Washington Post "
"Like light focused into coherent beam, "The Gold Coast" brilliantly illuminates the craziness of technology out of control."--"Interzone "