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Have the Three Californias on my kindle & since I am a huge Kim Stanley Robinson fan decided it was time to read them. Many of his books are eco-sf and he has a positive take on how humans are adaptable as the climate changes the world. Highly recommend the Green Earth trilogy, & New York 2140 to see how we can survive the worst of the climate change. He is an intrepid researcher & I believe he is also prescient.

This is Robinson's utopian novel in the triptych. Set in 2065, in Orange County (again, of course), our protagonist Kevin Clairborne is in a battle to save an undeveloped hilltop in the town of El Modena from development.

Not was much happens in this one compared to the first two. There are council meetings, zoning debates, and softball games. Still I really enjoyed this. Robinson built an interesting world and is an excellent writer IMO.

The Gold Coast (1988) is book two in KSR's triptych. Set in 2027, Orange County CA is full of shopping malls, industrial development, massive residential buildings and the autopia - multi-level electric/magnetic roads filled with programmable self-driving cars. It is a concrete jungle.
I thought this novel came together nicely at the end, in a similar way the first novel of this triptych did. I liked it but not as much as The Wild Shore.

This is the impressive debut novel by Kim Stanley Robinson. It is part of the Three Californias Triptych, and all titles were free on Audible last time I checked. The Wild Shore is the dystopian novel of the three. The triptych covers three possible futures for California.

The pace of the novel is slow and steady, and the tone is melancholic, which was right up my alley and why I liked it so much. Kim Stanley Robinson can really tell a story.

~I live in the northern Bay Area in California
~Fave genre is probably fantasy, but also literary fiction by & about women
~Fave authors (can‘t pick one!): Margaret Atwood, Marissa Meyer, Toni Morrison, Luis Alberto Urrea, Madeline Miller, Thrity Umrigar, and Shakespeare ☺️
~Like, fave books to suggest to others? The Snow Child, Circe, In the Time of the Butterflies, Sula, The Hummingbird‘s Daughter, Heartless, okay okay I‘ll stop
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#humpday ! Another great prompt from @MinDea
1. Went to my cousins house this past Sunday to swim, isn't her baby the cutest??
2. I haven't because the one I had to miss the one going to go due to work travels. #losangeles #orangecounty #sandiego #riverside
3. Chili
4. Black, raspberry, and orange
5. 36 but I've read almost all the series on there so technically higher