An edition of The Man in the High Castle (1962)

The Man in the High Castle

Penguin Classics
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An edition of The Man in the High Castle (1962)

The Man in the High Castle

Penguin Classics
  • 3.56 ·
  • 96 Ratings
  • 345 Want to read
  • 9 Currently reading
  • 130 Have read

The Man in the High Castle is an alternate history novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. Published and set in 1962, the novel takes place fifteen years after an alternative ending to World War II, and concerns intrigues between the victorious Axis Powers—primarily, Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany—as they rule over the former United States, as well as daily life under the resulting totalitarian rule. The Man in the High Castle won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1963. Beginning in 2015, the book was adapted as a multi-season TV series, with Dick's daughter, Isa Dick Hackett, serving as one of the show's producers.

Reported inspirations include Ward Moore's alternate Civil War history, Bring the Jubilee (1953), various classic World War II histories, and the I Ching (referred to in the novel). The novel features a "novel within the novel" comprising an alternate history within this alternate history wherein the Allies defeat the Axis (though in a manner distinct from the actual historical outcome).

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December 1983, Ace Books
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First Sentence

"For much of his writing life Philip K. Dick was considered by a coterie of devoted readers, writers and critics as an unrecognized genius, a visionary whose manic novels of fractured realities presented a future that, like all good science fiction, was less prescriptive of what was to come than descriptive of the present."

Edition Notes

Copyright Date
1962

Classifications

Library of Congress

Contributors

Introduction
Eric Brown

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
229

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7359171M
ISBN 10
0141186674
ISBN 13
9780141186672
Library Thing
16570
Goodreads
22588

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For a week Mr R.Childan had been anxiously watching the mail.
added by J. Ali Harlow.

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