Three Californias: The Wild Shore, The Gold Coast, and Pacific Edge

Before Kim Stanley Robinson terraformed Mars, he wrote three science fiction novels set in Orange County, California, where he grew up. These alternate futures—one a post-apocalypse, one an if-this-goes-on future reminiscent of Philip K. Dick, and one an ecological utopia—form a whole that illuminates, enchants, and inspires—collected here as Three Californias.

What if... there was a limited nuclear war that le...