In The Blast of War, Adam Yoshida told the devastating story of how the continuation of present-day political trends could spin out of control and plunge the world into war. In A Land War in Asia, the story continued as the United States, under a new President, found itself inexorably drawn into the Third World War just as it once was the first two and the American military soon found itself called to face fierce and deadly new Chinese weapons in a struggle across multiple continents and oceans. And, in A Thousand Points of Light, the tale of World War Three came to a fiery conclusion as the...

More than two centuries ago, after years of political stagnation and degeneration, the Republic of Earth was formed. This government aims to unite all of humanity under a single regime and, in turn, secure the admittance of humanity to the alien Federation that rules much of the galaxy. The only holdouts are the human colonists who live on a terraformed Mars. Although the Earth government claims that the existence of the United States ended with the formation of the world government on Mars there are American settlers who keep the traditions of the Republic alive. "Next Year in America" tells...