The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
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The Man in the High Castle

Author: Philip K. Dick

Narrator: Jeff Cummings

Unabridged: 10 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/02/2015

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Now an Amazon Original seriesWinner of the Hugo Award“The single most resonant and carefully imagined book of Dick’s career”—New York TimesIt’s America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some twenty years earlier the United States lost a war—and is now occupied by Nazi Germany and Japan.This harrowing, Hugo Award–winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas. In it Dick offers a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to wake.

About Philip K. Dick

Over a writing career that spanned three decades, PHILIP K. DICK (1928–1982) published 36 science fiction novels and 121 short stories in which he explored the essence of what makes man human and the dangers of centralized power. Toward the end of his life, his work turned toward deeply personal, metaphysical questions concerning the nature of God. Eleven novels and short stories have been adapted to film, notably Blade Runner (based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), Total Recall, Minority Report, and A Scanner Darkly. The recipient of critical acclaim and numerous awards throughout his career, Dick was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2005, and in 2007 the Library of America published a selection of his novels in three volumes. His work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ken-ichi on August 17, 2015

On Wednesday I found myself at a party (an occurrence itself worthy of remark) at which everyone wore "I'm currently reading..." stickers, so I had several opportunities to explain why I was loving The Man in the High Castle. One such conversation went like this: "So what's that about?" "Well, it's sc......more

Goodreads review by Emily May on April 02, 2019

3 1/2 stars Scientifically and politically, this is absolute genius. The way Philip K. Dick masterfully rewrites history and portrays this alternate United States is quite incredible and I can easily see why the guy has such a huge following. That being said, while this novel is undeniably clever, I......more

Goodreads review by Manny on November 22, 2023

[Original review, Feb 22 2016] DISCLAIMER: It would evidently be irresponsible to call Donald Trump a Nazi merely on the strength of a recent speech in which he suggested it would be desirable to shoot Muslims using bullets dipped in pig's blood. A more plausible interpretation is that this is no mor......more

Goodreads review by Mario the lone bookwolf on April 18, 2021

Dick, did you really just wasted a perfect plot by endlessly driveling about pseudo philosophical deeper meaning of art while being unable to establish other plotlines, any major action, suspense, believable characters with comprehensible motivations to let the mess culminate, again, in just ending......more

Goodreads review by emma on March 07, 2024

"We do not have the ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do no right with no effort because he can detect the obvious." A few years ago, I watched the first season-ish of the TV show adaptation of this book. Here is what I remember: - scar......more

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