United States of Japan

This interesting and excited to read spiritual sequel toThe Man in The High Castlefocuses 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 GeorgeWashingtons-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.; ; CaptainBenikoIshimura’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 GeorgeWashingtonsis 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 Japanis a stunning successor to Philip K Dick'sThe Man in the High Castle.;; File under-Science Fiction Gamechanger| Area #11 | Robot Wars | Strike Back the Empire