The Gold Coast

The Three Californias Triptych, Book 2

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

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.

©2013 Kim Stanley Robinson (P)2015 Blackstone Audio, Inc. and Skyboat Media, Inc.

fantastic!

I loved everything about this book. even it's datedness. my only complaint is, while I loved the narrator's voice and delivery, like so many male narrators he cannot do a woman's voice without making them sound like a 50's grandma or a drag queen. I find that so irritating. just read the female parts like a human being!

Brilliant and fascinating

I was fascinated by the depiction of a future Southern California. This book is highly entertaining, and very thought-provoking, as is the case with all of Robinson's work!

Great story weird narration

I really enjoyed the plot but the laugh that the narrator makes is one of the most disturbing sounds in the world.

Very Satisfying Story

If you know Orange County it is an added plus. It is also important to read this with the two other books in the triptych; they are not a sequence, but three separate to be amazing visions.

I Didn't Understand

This novel was well performed, But I really didn't understand the purpose in this series.