The Gold Coast
The second book in the Earth trilogy set in 21st-century Orange County, California, following a nuclear holocaust. It's a mass-culture, video-saturated world and the living looks easy. Jim McPherson, a 27-year-old adrift in this affluent society, lives his life through dreams of the past.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Orbit
- Year
- 1995
- ISBN-13
- 9780006480204
- Genre
- Science FictionFiction
- Topics
- Consumerism and mass culturePost-apocalyptic societySearch for meaning and identity
Awards
- BSFA Award for Best NovelShortlisted(1989)
- Locus Award for Best Science Fiction NovelShortlisted(1989)
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