![]() ![]() The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has set their clock “one second to midnight man, set there for twenty years.” Jim is a part-time English teacher at a junior college, making ends meet by doing some clerical work at a real estate office too. ![]() Dennis is an engineer working for Laguna Space Research, a defense contractor. The two major plotlines of the book follow Jim McPherson and his father Dennis McPherson. ![]() ![]() I’ll talk more about the effect of reading it together with the others later, but suffice it to say it makes an excellent stand-alone novel. For the most part, characters don’t carry over from one book to the next-you could pick this book up by itself no problem. I’m simplifying, but that’s the basic idea. The triptych portrays three visions of a future Orange County: the first, The Wild Shore, post-apocalyptic the second, The Gold Coast, dystopian and the third, Pacific Edge, utopian. The Gold Coast is the second book in the Three Californias Triptych, written by Kim Stanley Robinson. ![]()
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