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The Man in the High Castle
 

The Man in the High Castle (Vintage)

by Philip K. Dick

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... (read more)

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wurd nurd
  • Rated 4 stars

“I've not read a lot of alternative histories, and this one is difficult, disturbing and imaginative. Rather than treating the major events as the whole story, the story focuses on the microscopic elements. Just like in real life, the huge events only have a peripheral impact on people's lives, and there is no tidy ending. I only wish the author focused a little more on a smaller cast of characters, rather than trying to capture every aspect of society.”

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jmadigan
  • Rated 2 stars

“I've only recently become interested in science fiction, and I find it particularly fun to read the "classics" like Clark and Heinlein because of the way these they end up imagining what their future, our present, will be like. I'd been aware of Phillip K. Dick for a while, but just now got around to reading something by him.

The Man in the High Castle is an alternate reality story set 20 years after Japan and Germany win World War II and co-occupy America. This is not a plot-driven...”

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  • Rated 3.832861 stars
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  • Rated 4.375 stars
  

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