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The Man in the High Castle
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780679740674
ISBN: 0679740678
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: June 30, 1992
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: June 30, 1992
Studio: Vintage
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Editorial Review:
It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. the few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some 20 years earlier the United States lost a war--and is now occupied jointly by Nazi Germany and Japan. This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas. In it Dick offers a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to awake.
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Rating:  - What if the Nazis / Japanese Won WWII, the U.S. Conquered & Divided?
What makes The Man in the High Castle so compelling is that it portrays a bleak alternate reality that could very well have come to pass. What many people in the modern age forget is that the Axis powers of Nazi Germany, Japan and Italy, very nearly won WWII. Furthermore, the United States was not always the dominant power that it is today. In fact, prior to WWII the global military might of the U.S. was just ranked at the bottom of the top 5. It was only after WWII, when the U.S. allowed Nazi ... Read More
Rating: - Nothing else quite like it
I just read this book for the second time, and I still can't follow all the intricacies of the plot or say clearly what happened and why. In other words, it's just like everyday life. There is no clear protagonist, no clear resolution, and the plot is incomplete to say the least, just a small, partial segment of an extremely complex/intricate ongoing process -- just like real life. The book is loaded with oblique humor and incisive description of the human condition. As other reviewers have said, ... Read More
Rating:  - PKD has written far better...
PKD's recent literary resurgence has led to a (long overdue) reconsideration of his work. The Man In The High Castle won the Hugo Award, and is often sighted as among his best novels. And while the premise is certainly intriguing, the book is exceedingly poorly written - and not in a pulpy, so-bad-it's-good kind of way. PKD was a great risk taker as a writer and he deserves credit for that; he has written some fantastic, delirious and chaotic books that defy easy categorization (A Scanner Darkly is a ... Read More
Rating: - Hugo winning classic
Dick's novel is set in an alternative present where the Axis powers won WWII and the Japanese have taken over the Pacific states. Dick's eerily believable world is full of paranoia, which is what Dick does best. The only problem I had with the novel is that it is really about a group of people who are only loosely connected and their stories never converge.
Rating: - Our world as it might have been ...
In this nightmarish "alternate history" novel, the United States and the Allied Powers were soundly defeated in World War II, and America is now occupied by Nazi Germany east of the Mississippi, and Japan in the West. Erwin Rommel is Military Governor of Nazi Occupied America, in which the Nazi racial purity laws are in full and vigorous effect. In the west, Japan rules with a more humane, but still an iron hand, and in both areas Americans themselves are a downtrodden minority and underclass in their ... Read More
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