Kim Stanley Robinson

Broschiertes Buch

The Gold Coast

Three Californias

Beschreibung

The Gold Coast, set an alternative future of ecological collapse, is the second novel in Kim Stanley Robinson's Three Californias trilogy. 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.

Autor

KIM STANLEY ROBINSON is an American science fiction writer. He is the author of more than 20 books, including the international bestselling Mars trilogy: Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars, and more recently Red Moon, New York 2140, and 2312, which was a New York Times bestseller nominated for all seven of the major science fiction awards¿a first for any book. 2008 he was named a ¿Hero of the Environment¿ by Time magazine, and he works with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute, the Clarion Writers¿ Workshop, and UC San Diegös Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination. He has won the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy awards. In 2016 he was given the Heinlein Award for lifetime achievement in science fiction, and asteroid 72432 was named ¿Kimrobinson.¿ In 2017 he was given the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9780312890377
• ISBN-10: 0312890370
• Artikelnr.: 22391507