United States of Japan
by Peter Tieryas
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Pub Date 1 Mar 2016 | Archive Date 29 Jan 2016
Angry Robot Books | Angry Robot
Description
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. 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 ]
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. 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 ]
Advance Praise
“United States of Japan is a powerful book, unsettling at times – surreal and hypnotic.
There’s a bit of Philip K. Dick in here, and Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, but Peter Tieryas
is his own voice, a talented author, somebody to keep an eye on for sure.
I loved his last book, bald New World, and I loved this one, too.”
Richard Thomas, author of Breaker and Disintegration
“A searing vision of the persistence of hope in the face of brutality,
United States of Japan is utterly brilliant.”
— Ken Liu, Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy winner and author of The Grace of Kings
Marketing Plan
For all marketing information, including publicity tours, please contact Penny Reeve (penny.reeve@angryrobotbooks.com).
For all marketing information, including publicity tours, please contact Penny Reeve (penny.reeve@angryrobotbooks.com).
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9780857665348 |
| PRICE | US$7.99 (USD) |
