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Pacific Edge

Three Californias

Kim Stanley Robinson

Orb Books

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ISBN10: 0312890389
ISBN13: 9780312890384

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336 Pages

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Winner of the John W. Campbell Award

The year is 2065. In a world that has rediscovered living in harmony with nature, the village of El Modena, California, is an ecotopia in the making. But then Kevin Claiborne, a young builder who has grown up in this "green" world, suddenly finds himself caught in a fierce struggle to preserve this community's idyllic way of life from the resurgent forces of greed and exploitation.

Pacific Edge is the final novel in Robinson's Three Californias trilogy.

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Praise for Pacific Edge

"An outstanding achievement . . . Robinson's writing ranks in the highest levels of the genre. The book generates a soaring optimism."—Publishers Weekly

"Through a blend of dirt-under-fingernails naturalism and lyrical magical realism, Robinson invites us to share his characters' intensely personal, intensely loyal attachment to what they have. The result is a bittersweet utopia that may shame you into entertaining new hope for the future."—The New York Times Book Review

"[Pacific Edge is] the outstanding utopia of the last ten years and more."—Foundation

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Despair could never touch a morning like this.
The air was cool, and smelled of sage. It had the clarity that comes to southern California only after a Santa Ana wind has blown all haze and history out to sea—air like telescopic...

About the author

Kim Stanley Robinson

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.

Sean Curtin