United States of Japan
Watkins Media · Print & ebook · August 1, 2017
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- Who it’s for
- Alternate-history intrigue meets a detective’s hunt through a regime’s forbidden game.
- Themes
- Alternate history, Censorship, Resistance to authoritarian rule
- Genres
- Alternate History, Sci-Fi, Cyberpunk
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This “interesting and excited to read” spiritual sequel to The Man in The High Castle focuses on the New Japanese Empire—from an acclaimed author and essayist (io9) Decades ago, Japan won the Second World War. Americans worship their infallible Emperor, and nobody believes that Japan’s conduct in the war was anything but exemplary. Nobody, that is, except the George Washingtons—a shadowy group of rebels fighting for freedom.
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Their latest subversive tactic is to distribute an illegal video game that asks players to imagine what the world might be like if the United States had won the war instead. Captain Beniko Ishimura’s job is to censor video games, and he’s tasked with getting to the bottom of this disturbing new development. But Ishimura’s hiding something . . . He’s slowly been discovering that the case of the George Washingtons is more complicated than it seems, and the subversive videogame’s origins are even more controversial and dangerous than the censors originally suspected. Part detective story, part brutal alternate history, United States of Japan is a stunning successor to Philip K Dick’s The Man in the High Castle. File under: Science Fiction [ Gamechanger | Area #11 | Robot Wars | Strike Back the Empire ]
Games Under Censorship
Alternate-history intrigue meets a detective’s hunt through a regime’s forbidden game.
Come here for
- A censored video game that turns history into a dangerous question
- A mystery set inside an empire’s tightly controlled version of the past
Expect
- Detective-story tension alongside brutal alternate history
- Questions of power, memory, and who gets to tell the story
Where it sits
| Alternate History | 93% |
|---|---|
| Cyberpunk | 44% |
| Sci-Fi | 34% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Military Sci-Fi
- Cyberpunk
- Alternate History
- Authors
- Peter Tieryas
- Publisher
- Watkins Media
- Published
- August 1, 2017
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Alternate history · Censorship · Resistance to authoritarian rule
- Reading lane
- Military Sci-Fi