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  • By: Peter Tieryas
  • Narrated by: Adam Sims
  • Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
  • 3.8 out of 5 stars (73 ratings)
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By: Peter Tieryas
Narrated by: Adam Sims
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Summary

United States of Japan is set in a gripping alternate history where the Japanese Empire rules over America with huge robots. Is resistance possible in the form of subversive video games?

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 group of rebels fighting for freedom. Their latest terrorist 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 is tasked with getting to the bottom of this disturbing new development.

But Ishimura's hiding something...kind of. He's slowly been discovering that the case of the George Washingtons is more complicated than it seems, and the subversive video game's origins are even more controversial and dangerous than the censors originally suspected.

A spiritual sequel to Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle, United States of Japan carries on the legacy of Dick's famous alternate history, focusing on how Americans and Japanese deal with their guilt and troubled relationship to the past.

Peter Tieryas is a character artist who has worked on films like Guardians of the Galaxy, Alice in Wonderland and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2.

His novel, Bald New World, was listed as one of Buzzfeed's 15 Highly Anticipated Books as well as Publishers Weekly's Best Science Fiction Books of Summer 2014.

©2016 Peter Tieryas (P)2016 Audible, Ltd

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Don't be fooled by the cover..

Giants robots are mostly in the background in this novel.

Nice world building that rather overshadows the actual plot, and an ending that gives a finger to any hopes that this is not a one off.

NarratIon was good and understandable at x2 playback speed.

Still, I'm glad I 'read' this book.

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Unique

The performance is absolutely amazing. The setup is quite unique and well designed. The story is more like a tool that allows facts to be revealed from the past one after the the other, but still the story is pretty much OK. There is a lot of pain and violence in there, very slight optimism, but if you can live with that then you will find this book completely worth to listen.

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Passable but incredulous story

I enjoyed the story enough to listen all the way through. It was a little ridiculous and there were parts that had me screwing up my face in disbelief. Beniko and Akiko were intresting characters and I liked both of them but I really hated the campy narration. The men sounded all sounded like teenage stoners and the women were all overly aggressive in their tone. I would reccomend as a curiosity but it's no Orwell novel.

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Could have been so much better

Would you consider the audio edition of United States of Japan to be better than the print version?

Never read print version as I am blind and unable to read print

If you’ve listened to books by Peter Tieryas before, how does this one compare?

First timer to this author

What about Adam Sims’s performance did you like?

Read very well with good voices

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

No

Any additional comments?

Could have been so much better

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