North Dakota, 2026

When the hanging chads fall the other way in Florida, Al Gore takes the oath of office — and the Great Plains finally get an energy policy. Across a quarter of a century, North Dakota, 2026 follows the Rost family of Ellendale as the turbines rise over their wheat: a permanent production tax credit, a century-old state bank that stops asking permission, solar rows grazed by cattle, and a grid that holds when the cold comes down to thirty below.

By harvest of 2026, the prairie that fed America is powering it. The only question left is what the land owes the next generation.