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2065: In a world that has rediscovered harmony with nature, the village of El Modena, California, is an ecotopia in the making. Kevin Claiborne, a young builder who has grown up in this "green" world, now finds himself caught up in the struggle to preserve his community's idyllic way of life from the resurgent forces of greed and exploitation.
Pacific Edge is the final book in Kim Stanley Robinson's Three Californias Trilogy.
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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.
From Publishers Weekly:
An outstanding achievement, the concluding volume in Robinson's Orange County, Calif., trilogy again takes place in the middle of the next century. The books are not strict sequels, providing instead several versions of an alternate world. While The Wild Shore depicted a postnuclear holocaust society and The Gold Coast reflected a period of uncontrolled technological growth, this novel is set in an ecological utopia with a reduced population and rational use of renewable resources. Because utopias can be boring, Robinson generates action through several intertwined conflicts, combining the political and personal lives of his characters. The introduction of the newly hired town attorney provides a fresh insight into the community of El Modena and an external viewpoint on its citizens' "usual array of Machiavellian battles," as do excerpts from a diary writtten in the past. The characters are fully developed and individually motivated; the reader identifies with them easily. Robinson's writing ranks in the highest levels of the genre, and the last sentences of the book generate a soaring optimism. Taken together, the books of the trilogy invite interesting comparisons or their several worlds, but separately each is a completely independent, excellent story.
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- PublisherUnwin Hyman
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0044406320
- ISBN 13 9780044406327
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages304
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Book Description Octavo, boards. First edition. Third book of the "Orange County" trilogy, preceded by THE WILD SHORE (1984) and THE GOLD COAST (1988). A utopia in which "Orange County has benefited from restrictions on corporate size and strict controls over land use and pollution. Although the novel shows the near impossibility of imagining a living utopia (that everyone plays softball pretty constantly may not be an entirely convincing synecdoche of a wholesome lifestyle), a sense of earned freshness and relief permeates its pages." - SFE (online). Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-367. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#155878). Seller Inventory # 155878
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