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JitterbugPerfume

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9. I just finished TheGold Coast

Reply to DUgosh (Original post)

Sun Feb 12, 2012, 06:17 PM

Feb 2012

It is a dystopian look at the near future , but certain aspects of it look a lot like the dystopian present, unfortunately. Kim Stanley Robinson wrote the California trilogy in the 1980s and this is the second one I have read , but they can be read in any order. I don't know what I will read next . I am ready for a change. The third book can wait a while--maybe

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