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 while the population of Africa has virtually been wiped out. In this nightmare dystopia the Nazis have taken over New York,the Japanese control California and the African continent is virtually wiped out.
In a neutral buffer zone in America that divides the world's new rival superpowers,lives the author of an underground bestseller. His book offers a new vision of reality - an alternative theory of world history in which the Axis powers were defeated - giving hope to the disenchanted. Does'reality'lie with him,or is his world just one among many others
Subtle,complex and beautifully characterised,The Man in the High Castle remains the finest alternative world novel ever written,and a work of profundity and significance.
Philip Kindred Dick (1928-82) was born in Chicago in 1928. His career as a science fiction writer comprised an early burst of short stories followed by a stream of novels,typically character studies incorporating androids,drugs,and hallucinations. His best works are generally agreed to be The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,the inspiration for the movie Blade Runner
Publisher: Orion Publishing CoISBN: 9781473223486Number of pages: 288Weight: 331 gDimensions: 204 x 131 x 25 mm
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The most brilliant sci-fi mind on any planet - Rolling Stone
The single most resonant and carefully imagined book of Dick's career - New York TimesHelped shape an entire field of modern fiction: alternate history. It's the definition of genre-defining - GuardianOne of the first examples of what would become Dick s signature style:his stories are complex,featuring regular characters altered by muchlarger events surrounding them,often influencing their perceptions onreality.- Kirkus ReviewsCalifornia's own William Blake. Visionary and prophet - Daily TelegraphDick's best work,and the most memorable alternative world tale...ever written - SCIENCE FICTION: THE 100 BEST NOVELS
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