United States of Japan

Decades ago, Japan won the Second World War. Americans worship their infallible Emperor, and nobody believes that Japans 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 Ishimuras job is to censor video games, and hes tasked with getting to the bottom of this disturbing new development. But Ishimuras hiding something Hes slowly been discovering that the case of the George Washingtons is more complicated than it seems, and the subversive videogames 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 Dicks The Man in the High Castle. File Under: Science Fiction [ Gamechanger | Area #11 | Robot Wars | Strike Back The Empire ] See more