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Philip Dick is one of the most influential writers in science fiction history. After penning numerous magnificent novels, he gradually spiraled into depression and ultimately insanity. Much of his later work is simply unreadable by mere mortals such as me.

This is a relatively short (235 pages) work of alternative history, in which Franklin Roosevelt is assassinated in the first year of his first term. He is succeeded by a collection of mediocrities, ensuring world domination by the Germans and the Japanese. In the year 1962, The United States is split into spheres of influence, with the East Coast the dominion of the Germans and the West Coast dominated by the Japanese. The American heartland is largely ignored.

Much of the writing and storytelling is simply brilliant. There are several different threads involved, including a Jewish jewelry maker in the PSA (Pacific States of America), a dealer in American antiquities who struggles to interact with his Asian overlords, a divorced woman in the Rocky Mountain States, a Japanese Trade representative, a German spy operating in Japanese territory on the West Coast. The political and social landscape is rich with satire and extremes. For example, the technocratic Germans have established bases on Mars, but elimination of most of the world's Jews has resulted in a world where America has no commercial television or entertainment industry.

Much of the story revolves around a renegade American author, holed up in his Rocky Mountain fortress (The Man in the High Castle) who has published a controversial novel (banned in the German controlled eastern United States). The novel is a work of alternative history in which the United States wins the war and splits governance of the world with the British Empire. So, you're reading a book of alternative history which features a work of alternative history, such history largely mirroring the world in which we live. How clever.

Very short; very witty; quite enjoyable. No masterpiece, but well worth the effort.


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The Man in the High Castle Philip K Dick 9780679740674 Books Reviews

I was putting off buying this due to it having reviews like "confusing ending" however when watched the series on I was amazed and stunned at the same time. And i figured with all books and movies/tv adaptations the book is always better.We always see the commercials on tv for the what 'ifs' about history what if the Nazis won the war whats if World War II ended entirely different. We don't know for sure how this would actually have turned out but PKD offers some amazing insight to what it would have been like.
Each character has there own unique persona and unique motives for what they are really out to get. Every character is masterfully developed. PKD doesn't just focus on the character's PKD is able to fully capture you imagination and create a beautifully horrid reality inside your mind as you read.
This is one of the books that you will read reread and still be wondering about what truly happened or what the book was really about. One of the most complex and inciting books I have read and loved so deeply in a long time. Overall if you like alternative-history or books with complex backgrounds and amazing story's you should be sure to read this.
As I progress through life, and accept that I'm not young any more, I also realize that the younger generations do not ingest books the way I do. If you look at the reviews for this book, especially at the 1 and 2 star ratings, you'll find a deplorable pattern. "It was too slow." No, you're not considering what you're reading. "The author is a racist." Definitely no, he's almost drawing a caricature of them to shine a great big spotlight on facism and bigotry in order to persuade the audience of just how evil these things are. "The ending was too abrupt." or "He obviously meant to write a sequel." No and no. After many thousands of words placed in thought provoking ways, the author challenges the audience to decide what the story means. And gives us license to pick the ending that we think fits the best.

This story was written in the 60s, and is set then as well. What if the Axis won World War II is the major premise behind the setting. The conflicts highlight the extreme to which Japanese and German cultures could have gone, and the possible effects of living in a land under the control of one, and strongly influenced by the other. Imagine the Japanese concept of place, mixing with facist bigotry, overlaid on oppressed Americans living in a totalitarian world. PKD thoroughly denounces facism, bigotry and xenophobia.

But the story is more than that. The plot is hidden from the reader as we see events from several points of view. And the narration ends with barely a paragraph of denouement. If you are not driven to contemplation about the meaning of life or the nature of reality by this work, you should read it again, slowly.
Philip Dick is one of the most influential writers in science fiction history. After penning numerous magnificent novels, he gradually spiraled into depression and ultimately insanity. Much of his later work is simply unreadable by mere mortals such as me.

This is a relatively short (235 pages) work of alternative history, in which Franklin Roosevelt is assassinated in the first year of his first term. He is succeeded by a collection of mediocrities, ensuring world domination by the Germans and the Japanese. In the year 1962, The United States is split into spheres of influence, with the East Coast the dominion of the Germans and the West Coast dominated by the Japanese. The American heartland is largely ignored.

Much of the writing and storytelling is simply brilliant. There are several different threads involved, including a Jewish jewelry maker in the PSA (Pacific States of America), a dealer in American antiquities who struggles to interact with his Asian overlords, a divorced woman in the Rocky Mountain States, a Japanese Trade representative, a German spy operating in Japanese territory on the West Coast. The political and social landscape is rich with satire and extremes. For example, the technocratic Germans have established bases on Mars, but elimination of most of the world's Jews has resulted in a world where America has no commercial television or entertainment industry.

Much of the story revolves around a renegade American author, holed up in his Rocky Mountain fortress (The Man in the High Castle) who has published a controversial novel (banned in the German controlled eastern United States). The novel is a work of alternative history in which the United States wins the war and splits governance of the world with the British Empire. So, you're reading a book of alternative history which features a work of alternative history, such history largely mirroring the world in which we live. How clever.

Very short; very witty; quite enjoyable. No masterpiece, but well worth the effort.