Pacific Edge
by Kim Stanley Robinson
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The sun beats down from a glorious Orange County sky. People play softball and pedal their flyers above ecologically-sound thermocrete rooftops. The democratically elected council debate environmental issues and make rational decisions for the public good.
To Kevin Claiborne it must be the perfect society. But when he hears of plans to develop Rattlesnake Hill, the last piece of wilderness in the area, he senses the bubbling of corruption below the unblemished surface.
A world and an age away, a young writer sits in an internment camp in Virginia watching the march of events towards global disaster and dreams of utopia...
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Pacific Edge: Three Californias (Three Californias Triptych series Book 3)
Dec 31, 2013, Orb Books
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Pacific Edge: Three Californias (Wild Shore Triptych)
June 15, 1991, Tor Books
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"Despair could never touch a morning like this."
Edition Notes
HarperCollins Science Fiction & Fantasy
An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
77-85 Fulham Palace Road,
Hammersmith, London W6 8JB
This paperback edition 1995
Previously published in paperback by Grafton 1992
First published in Great Britain by Unwin Hyman Ltd 1990
Copyright © Kim Stanley Robinson 1990
ISBN 0 586 21457 7
Set in Times New Roman
Printed in Great Britain by HarperCollinsManufacturing Glasgow
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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 third novel in Kim Stanley Robinson's Three Californias Trilogy.
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