United States Of Japan
  • Published: 21 November 2018
  • ISBN: 9780857665331
  • Imprint: Angry Robot
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $35.00

United States Of Japan

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21 Nov 2018
Paperback
21 Nov 2018
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A spiritual sequel to The Man In The High Castle, focusing on the New Japanese Empire, from an acclaimed author and essayist.

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 ]
  • Published: 21 November 2018
  • ISBN: 9780857665331
  • Imprint: Angry Robot
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $35.00
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Praise for Peter Tieryas-Liu:

"Peter Tieryas Liu crafts a vivid, imaginative setting with lush descriptive phrases. What begins as a broad farce with spy girls and gadgets gradually becomes a serious commentary on the nature of self. Nick struggles against those who would reform, use, or manipulate him, trying to find himself in a world strewn with literal false faces. Gorgeous language choices combine with Nick's philosophical journey of personal discovery to create a deceptively deep story."
- Publishers Weekly

"Bald New World has it all: a sci-fi setting that is both probable and mesmerizing, an intriguing plot, an engaging character surrounded by others with complicated motivations, and a powerful voice unafraid to discuss the shallow obsessions that feed our fears."
-SF Signal

"Bald New World is sort of like a Haruki Murakami novel set in a future reminiscent of Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash... where everyone is bald. At the same time, it's really nothing like that. The debut novel from Peter Tieryas Liu, this book is a complete original, and always fun to read. It's a very strange book with a lot of heart, with a strong eye for both character and narrative, and overflowing with great ideas."
-Electric Literature

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