FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF RED MARS AND NEW YORK 2140 Before Kim Stanley Robinson terraformed Mars, he wrote Three science fiction novels set in Orange County, California, where he grew up. -- The New York Times on Pacific Edge.
The result may shame you into entertaining new hope for the future.
Robinson] invites us to share his characters\' intensely personal, intensely local attachment to what they have.
Is a future green Utopia all that great when you\'re young and in love? This Tor Essentials edition of Three Californias includes an introduction by Francis Spufford, bestselling author of Golden Hill and Red Plenty . a revolution happens, and the US addresses climate change in a responsible way. this goes on, and technology continues to accelerate, and power continues to be consolidated into corporate culture, a developer\'s dream world gone mad: an endless sprawl of condos, freeways, and malls, and designer drugs? What if... there was a limited nuclear war that left the United States blockaded, fragmented, the few survivors living in the ruins of a once-great nation? What if...
What if...
Dick, and one an ecological utopia--form a whole that illuminates, enchants, and inspires--collected here as Three Californias .
These alternate futures--one a post-apocalypse, one an if-this-goes-on future reminiscent of Philip K.
FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF RED MARS AND NEW YORK 2140 Before Kim Stanley Robinson terraformed Mars, he wrote Three science fiction novels set in Orange County, California, where he grew up