如果軸心國在第二次世界大戰中獲得勝利如果日本統治的美國,成為《大日本合眾國》……沿用架空歷史《高堡奇人》(The Man in the High Castle)中的設定,日本與德國納粹贏得第二次世界大戰、瓜分了美國領土!《出版者周刊》2016年春季十大科幻、奇幻與恐怖小說帝國日本佔領美國西岸,成為「大日本合眾國」。它是個科技高度發展的國家,巨型機器人充斥、生物化學技術先進。沒有人質疑日本發動戰爭的正當性,也沒有人譴責日本在戰爭期間的暴行,而美國人崇敬著至高無上的日本天皇……同時,名為「喬治.華盛頓」(the George Washingtons)的地下反叛軍組織,決定為自由而奮鬥!他們設計了一款非法的電玩遊戲,請玩家設想,若以美國為首的同盟國贏得第二次世界大戰,這個世界將會是如何?Beniko Ishimura隊長是電玩遊戲審查員,他與秘密警察Akiko Tsukino合作,試圖挖掘地下組織活動的底細。然而,Ishimura逐漸察覺「喬治.華盛頓」組織的反叛活動,比表面上看來更加錯綜複雜、危險,而在調查電玩遊戲的過程中,也發現關於帝國日本的真相,他對於國家的忠誠度受到挑戰……反叛組織「喬治.華盛頓」,究竟隱藏著什麼樣的秘密?美籍華裔科幻作家Peter Tieryas(徐泰哲)除了從事寫作,也參與電影製作如《星際異攻隊》、《MIB星際戰警3》、《我是傳奇》等,參與開發的遊戲有《星球大戰:賞金獵人》、《榮譽勳章:太平洋戰役》等。著有《Watering Heaven》、《Bald New World》與《United States of Japan》等作品。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 working with Agent Akiko Tsukino of
the secret police to get 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 either of them 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.