It is 1962 and the Second World War has been over for seventeen years: people have now had a chance to adjust to the new order. But it's not been easy. The Mediterranean has been drained to make farmland, the population of Africa has virtually been wiped out and America has been divided between the Nazis and the Japanese. In the neutral buffer zone that divides the two superpowers lives the man in the high castle, the author of an underground bestseller, a work of fiction that offers an alternative theory of world history in which the Axis powers didn't win the war. The novel is a rallying cry for all those who dream of overthrowing the occupiers. But could it be more than that?
Subtle, complex and beautifully characterized, The Man in the High Castle remains the finest alternative world novel ever written, and a work of profundity and significance.
Now an Amazon Original series Winner of the Hugo Award “The single most resonant and carefully imagined book of Dick’s career.” — New York Times 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 twenty years earlier the United States lost a war—and is now occupied 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 wake.
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Paperback: 7¾" x 5". Etat : Very Good: Light signs of wear. Cover Art: Fred Gambino (illustrateur). 1965 Edition. © 1962: A stand-alone novel by Philip K Dick. 4th printing of 1965 trade paperback edition. Part of the Penguin Classic Science Fiction series:- Synopsis: If Germany had defeated Russia. If Japan had beaten the USA. Philip Dick Philip K Dick is tripping the switches of our minds again with his vision of the world as it might have been: F D Roosevelt assassinated, a Shinto California, Nazis in New York. One of the characters living in this alternate world eventually learns, from no less a source than the I-Ching, that the real world is one in which the allies were not defeated. This Hugo Award-winning novel is one of Dick's most painstakingly constructed, and in its bizarre mirror of the world we know, an inner truth is reflected back to us with chilling conviction:- Review(s): "Philip K Dick is the most brilliant sci-fi mind on any planet" - Rolling Stone:- (original cost £3.95). N° de réf. du vendeur 26.088.00003
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