The Gold Coast, Kim Stanley Robinson
The Gold Coast, Kim Stanley Robinson
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The Gold Coast

Author: Kim Stanley Robinson

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Unabridged: 14 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Skyboat Media

Published: 05/05/2015

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

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.

About Kim Stanley Robinson

Kim Stanley Robinson is a New York Times bestseller and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed Forty Signs of Rain, The Years of Rice and Salt, and 2312. In 2008, he was named a "Hero of the Environment" by Time magazine, and he works with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute. He lives in Davis, California.

About Claire Bloom

Claire Bloom, CBE, is an English film and stage actress, known for leading roles in plays such as Streetcar Named Desire, A Doll’s House, and Long Day’s Journey into Night, along with nearly sixty films and countless television roles, during a career spanning over six decades. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 Queen’s birthday honors for services to drama.

About Stefan Rudnicki

Stefan Rudnicki is an avid audiobook narrator, receiving numerous Earphones Awards from AudioFile magazine. He is also a Grammy-winning audiobook producer.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bart

(...) The California trilogy might be KSR’s most autobiographical work – at least the setting is, as he moved to Orange County when he was 2. Stan was 34 when he wrote it, and it is very much a book about saying goodbye to late adolescence – the extended period of drugs, booze and parties, being twen......more

Goodreads review by Redsteve

Not cyberpunk or dystopian in the strictest senses of either term - but only by a matter of degree. It’s not about corporate assassins and cybernetic ninja. It’s a story about a near-future Orange County and a few guys who have been friends since high school: a part-time teacher and amateur historia......more

Goodreads review by Jeff

The Gold Coast is book two in KSR's triptych. This story is set in 2027 and Orange County is totally developed, full of shopping malls, sprawling industrial development, massive residential buildings and the autopia - multi-level electric/magnetic roads (built in the "roaring 20s") filled with progr......more

Quotes

“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.” Washington Post

“What a bold, manic, wonderful book this is!” Los Angeles Times

“Like light focused into coherent beam, The Gold Coast brilliantly illuminates the craziness of technology out of control.” Interzone

“This fine, bleak look at Orange County, California, owes more to 1984 and A Clockwork Orange than to the usual SF scenario…Interspersed in the story are elegiac views of the history of ‘OC’ and its possible grim future. Robinson offers a stark cautionary tale with a glimmer of hope at the end.” Publishers Weekly

“Stefan Rudnicki’s deep voice is a solid match for the disillusioned characters, including burned-out aerospace contractor Dennis McPherson…Rudnicki gives his son, Jim, a lighter tone filled with a youthful optimism that is worn away when he begins to take part in antiwar terrorist acts, sabotaging the very technology his father helps to create. Explosive and gripping.” AudioFile

Awards

  • Locus Award
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