![]() ![]() The theme of the first chapters is that of a quite normal science fiction pastoral, which is deconstructed in the latter chapters, especially when it becomes clear that the post-nuclear war rural life is hindered from developing further by international treaties imposed by the victorious Soviets, with an unwilling Japan charged with patrolling the West Coast. Survivors have started over, forming little villages and living from agriculture and the sea. The nuclear strike was 2,000 to 3,000 neutron bombs that were detonated in 2,000 of North America's biggest cities in 1987. The Wild Shore (1984) is the story of survivors of a nuclear war. The Wild Shore was Robinson's first published novel. All three novels begin with an excavation which tells the reader about the world they are entering. ![]() Each of these books describes the life of young people in the three very different near-futures. ![]() ![]() The three books that make up the trilogy are The Wild Shore, The Gold Coast and Pacific Edge. The Three Californias Trilogy (also known as the Wild Shore Triptych and the Orange County Trilogy) consists of three books by Kim Stanley Robinson, which depict three different possible futures of Orange County, California. For the geographic entity, see The Californias. ![]()
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