Book 1

The Wild Shore

by Kim Stanley Robinson

Published 13 June 1985
A nuclear strike has wiped out civilization as we know it in the USA, reducing the population to isolated enclaves living in the ruins and the wilderness the disaster has left behind. It's a chance to start anew. It's an exciting opportunity for 17-year-old Henry to make America great again.

Book 2

The Gold Coast

by Kim Stanley Robinson

Published 1 January 1988
The second book in the Earth trilogy set in 21st-century Orange County, California, following a nuclear holocaust. It's a mass-culture, video-saturated world and the living looks easy. Jim McPherson, a 27-year-old adrift in this affluent society, lives his life through dreams of the past.

Book 3