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Title	:	The Man in the High Castle
Author	:	Philip K. Dick
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 259 pages
Published	:	June 30th 1992 by Vintage (first published October 1962)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction. Alternate History. Dystopia. Classics

The Man in the High Castle

Philip K. Dick

Paperback | Pages: 259 pages

Rating: 3.62 | 159607 Users | 10953 Reviews

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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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Original Title:	The Man in the High Castle
ISBN:	0679740678 (ISBN13: 9780679740674)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Nobusuke Tagomi, Rudolf Wegener, Frank Frink, Juliana Frink, Robert Childan, Paul Kasoura, Betty Kasoura, Ed McCarthy, Hawthorne Abendsen, Joe Cinnadella, Wyndam-Matson
Setting:	San Francisco, California,1962(United States) California(United States)
Literary Awards:	Hugo Award for Best Novel (1963), Tähtivaeltaja Award (1993)

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"The grasshopper shall be a burden"-- The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick This is one of those weird, unsettling novels that spins your brain in six or seven different directions.I read this PKD masterpiece almost two months ago, but only just recently returned to review it because after finishing, I wasn't ready to review. After I read more of him, I realized that even when he is messy, strange, disjointed and sometimes yes >>touched<< Philip K Dick is one MuthaF'er that

If you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review.Beckettian SF: "The Man in the High Castle" by Philip K. Dick"The Man in the High Castle is my second favourite PKD novel, after Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. I read both novels in the same year, back in the day, along with Ubik, VALIS and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, and most of PKD's short fiction. Without doubt the most mind-bending year of reading I've ever had, and the one that hooked me on SF more than any other.

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Alternative history stories telling about the Nazis taking over the world are not uncommon, the possibilities are obviously horrifying and Dick did not shy away from this motif. So what then can an alternate history first published more than a half-century ago tell us about our present circumstances?Of course, when considered literally Dicks fictitious tale has nothing to do with our present situation, but there is a threatening truth to his parable because we must remember that the German

the plot is simple enough: an alternate history detailing what would've happened had the axis powers won the second world war. thankfully, there's very little of that obvious government intrigue and new-world-order shit that lesser writers focus on -- rather, Dick's obsession is the spiritual life of the individual in a totalitarian society told in the form of a wonderfully messy jumble of ideas and ruminations on race and history and human connection and destiny. in fact, i think dick's ideas

3 1/2 starsScientifically and politically, this is absolute genius. The way Philip K. Dick masterfully rewrites history and portrays this alternate United States is quite incredible and I can easily see why the guy has such a huge following. That being said, while this novel is undeniably clever, I think what it lacks is a human touch. I found it hard to care about any of the mishmash of characters, which for me means that I ultimately found it hard to care about the direction of the story and