The Man in the High Castle

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It is 1962 and the Second World War has been over for seventeen 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.

Genres science fictionfictionclassicsdystopiaalternate historyhistorical fictionfantasybook clubscience fiction fantasynovels

256 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1,1962

Literary awards

hugo award, tähtivaeltaja award,

Places

san francisco california, california,

This edition

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Published: January 1, 2001 by Gollancz
ISBN: 9780575073357
ASIN: 0575073357
Language: English

Characters More characters

Nobusuke Tagomi

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Rudolf Wegener

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Frank Frink

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Juliana Frink

A judo instructor, living in Colorado. Though married to Robert Frink, the two are separated....
Robert Childan

Robert Childan is the owner of American Artistic Handcrafts, an Americana antiques business on Montgomery Street in San Francisco. Catering to a mostly Japanese clientele, Childan has adopted their manners, anglicised modes of speech, and ways of thinking...
Paul Kasoura

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About the author

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Philip K. Dick was born in Chicago in 1928 and lived most of his life in California. In 1952, he began writing professionally and proceeded to write numerous novels and short-story collections. He won the Hugo Award for the best novel in 1962 for The Man in the High Castle and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel of the year in 1974 for Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. Philip K. Dick died on March 2, 1982, in Santa Ana, California, of heart failure following a stroke.

In addition to 44 published novels, Dick wrote approximately 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his lifetime. Although Dick spent most of his career as a writer in near-poverty, ten of his stories have been adapted into popular films since his death, including Blade Runner, Total Recall, A Scanner Darkly, Minority Report, Paycheck, Next, Screamers, and The Adjustment Bureau. In 2005, Time magazine named Ubik one of the one hundred greatest English-language novels published since 1923. In 2007, Dick became the first science fiction writer to be included in The Library of America series.