Mecha Samurai Empire imagines that America lost WWII — also there are giant robots www.theverge.com

In 2016, Peter Tieryas published his debut novel United States of Japan which ended up on our best books of the year list for 2016. Tieryas has described the influence that Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle had on the book, in which the US loses World War II and is occupied by Japan and Germany. In this world, Tieryas puts a cyberpunk twist on the story, using subversive video games and giant mecha. This year, he’s publishing a follow-up set in the same world, Mecha Samurai Empire, which looks to double down on the giant mechs.