The Gold Coast

The Gold Coast by Kim Stanley Robinson is a 1988 Science & Technology book written by TED speaker Kim Stanley Robinson, paired here with the talk they gave.

The pairing

  • Paired talk: "Remembering climate change ... a message from the year 2071" (2021), 1.8M views on TED.com
  • Timing: Published 33 years before the talk.
  • In the catalogue: The 1st of 7 books by Kim Stanley Robinson on Books Worth Reading (1988–2015), by publication year.
  • Edition: Orb Books, 1988 · 389 pages

The paired TED talk

Remembering climate change ... a message from the year 2071 (2021), the TED talk by Kim Stanley Robinson.

From the publisher

2027: Southern California is a developer's dream gone mad, an endless sprawl of condos, freeways, and malls. Jim McPherson, the affluent son of a defense contractor, is a young man lost in a world of fast cars, casual sex, and designer drugs. But his descent in to the shadowy underground of industrial terrorism brings him into a shattering confrontation with his family, his goals, and his ideals.

The Gold Coast is the second novel in Robinson's Three Californias trilogy.

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