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Set in the year 2065, Pacific Edge follows Kevin Claiborne, a young builder who has spent his life in El Modena, a California village striving to become an ecotopia. The story centers on Kevin’s efforts to protect his community’s environmentally harmonious way of life from resurgent forces of greed and exploitation that seek to undermine the delicate balance of the green world. As the third installment of Kim Stanley Robinson’s Three Californias Trilogy, the novel explores the challenges of sustaining ecological and social ideals in a rapidly changing future.
First publish date: 1990
Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction
Authors: Kim Stanley Robinson
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