Tell a good story in an interesting place and readers will want to know more. Which was the case two years ago when science fiction writer Peter Tieryas released United States Of Japan, an alternate history sci-fi story in which Japan won World War II. But while his new novel, Mecha Samurai Empire (paperback, Kindle) takes place in the same alt-history universe as U.S.J., Tieryas explains in the following email interview that you need not read the previous novel to understand the new one…and you may even want to read this new one first.
