The Man in the High Castle
by Philip K Dick
A work of dystopian alternative fiction from one of science fiction’s most celebrated authors, Philip K Dick.
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“The Man in the High Castle is, for my money, Philip K Dick’s best book. It’s set in the 1960s, in a world where Germany and Japan have won the Second World War and jointly occupy the United States: the Japanese in the western half and the Germans in the eastern half. And it’s about trying to stay alive under those circumstances. It also features the I Ching, which Dick used to write the novel.” Read more...
“It’s set mostly in California. The world has been conquered by the Japanese and the Nazis, World War Two was lost by the Allies. They occupy the United States: the Germans have the eastern part, and the Japanese have the western part, the Pacific coast and all that. And in the middle in the Rocky Mountains is a buffer zone, and a lot of the action takes place there. To get into PKD you have to read The Man In The High Castle, there’s a reason it won the Hugo Award back in 1962.” Read more...
“You think you’ve acquired one truth: but that truth is really that there are infinite truths and infinite worlds, and nobody knows what the hell is going on, basically.” Read more...
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