Some of my friends and family gave me a lot of help with various aspects of this book. I’d like to thank Terry Baier, Daryl Bonin, Brian Carlisle, Donald and Nancy Crosby, Patrick Delahunt, Robert Franko, Charles R. Ill, Beth Meacham, Lisa Nowell, Linda Rogas, and Victor Salerno.

A special thanks to Steve Bixler and Larry Huhn; and to my parents.

By Kim Stanley Robinson from Tom Doherty Associates

By Kim Stanley Robinson from Tom Doherty Associates

The Blind Geometer

Escape from Kathmandu

Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias (Editor)

The Gold Coast

Green Mars

Icehenge

The Memory of Whiteness

Pacific Edge

The Planet on the Table

Remaking History

A Short, Sharp Shock

The Wild Shore

Copyright

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are either fictitious or are used fictitiously.

THE GOLD COAST

Copyright © 1988 by Kim Stanley Robinson

This book was originally published as a Tor hardcover in February 1988.

An Orb Edition

Published by Tom Doherty Associates, Inc.

175 Fifth Avenue

New York, N.Y. 10010

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Robinson, Kim Stanley.

The Gold Coast / Kim Stanley Robinson.

p. cm. — (Three Californias)

“A Tom Doherty Associates book.”

ISBN 978-0-312-89037-7

1. Orange County (Calif.)—Fiction. I. Title. II. Series: Robinson, Kim Stanley. Three Californias.

PS3568.O2893G65 1995]

813'.54—dc20

95-4272
CIP

eISBN 9781466861336

First eBook edition: November 2013