The Orange County or Three Californias trilogy offers radically different histories of Southern California in the mid twenty-first century. In The Wild Shore, the survivors of a neutron-bomb attack live like post-apocalyptic, pioneers, foraging among the ruins of destroyed California cities, while Tom Barnard, a survivor from the twentieth century, preserves his own vision of a pre-apocalyptic past, shot through with myths, tall tales, and quickly vanishing knowledge. The Gold Coast depicts a quasi-dystopian future of cheap, cookie-cutter condominiums and sprawling, triple-decker freeways. In trying to recover California’s socioecological history, Jim McPherson struggles, as a writer and an activist, to imagine how a more just and sustainable society might emerge. Pacific Edge envisions a utopian society that has transformed the landscape of Orange County by its commitment to social, economic, and environmental justice. In a solar and wind-powered future, the land is not a passive backdrop but an active force in Kevin Clairborne’s fight to sustain the principles and practices of socioeconomic justice.