Man In The High Castle

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A dazzling speculative novel of counterfactual history from one of Americas most highly-regarded science fiction authors Philip K. Dicks The Man in the High Castle"

Includes:: an introduction by Eric Brown in " Penguin Modern Classics". Philip K. Dicks acclaimed cult novel gives us a horrifying glimpse of an alternative world
- one where the Allies have lost the Second World War. In this nightmare dystopia the Nazis have taken over New York the Japanese control California & the African continent is virtually wiped out. In a neutral buffer zone in America that divides the worlds 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? 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 & hallucinations. His best works are generally agreed to be " The Man in the High Castle" & " Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" the inspiration for the movie " Blade Runner". If you enjoyed " The Man in the High Castle" you might like Yevgeny Zamyatins " We" also available in " Penguin Classics". " The most brilliant science fiction mind on any planet". (" Rolling Stone"). " Dicks finest book & one of the very best science fiction novels ever published". (Eric Brown)."