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The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics) Book

Imagine the world if the Allies had lost the Second World War. This book trips the switches of our minds with a vision of the world as it might have been: the African continent virtually wiped out, the Mediterranean drained to make farmland, and, the United States divided between the Japanese and the Nazis.Read More

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    A dazzling speculative novel of 'counterfactual history' from one of America's most highly-regarded science fiction authors Philip K. Dick's "The Man in the High Castle" includes an introduction by Eric Brown in "Penguin Modern Classics". Philip K. Dick's 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 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? 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". If you enjoyed "The Man in the High Castle" you might like Yevgeny Zamyatin's "We" also available in "Penguin Classics". "The most brilliant science fiction mind on any planet". ("Rolling Stone"). "Dick's finest book and one of the very best science fiction novels ever published". (Eric Brown).

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    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? 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. If you enjoyed The Man in the High Castle, you might like Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, also available in Penguin Classics. A dazzling speculative novel of 'counterfactual history' from one of America's most highly-regarded science fiction authors, Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle includes an introduction by Eric Brown in Penguin Modern Classics. Philip K. Dick's acclaimed cult novel gives us a horrifying glimpse of an alternative world - one where the Allies have lost the Second World War.

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    Gives us a horrifying glimpse of an alternative world - one where the Allies have lost the Second World War. A dazzling speculative novel of 'counterfactual history' from one of America's most highly-regarded science fiction authors, Philip K.

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    The Man in the High Castle : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780141186672 : 0141186674 : 01 May 2010 : Gives us a horrifying glimpse of an alternative world - one where the Allies have lost the Second World War.

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    Philip K. Dick, Eric Brown

  • 0141186674
  • 9780141186672
  • Philip K. Dick
  • 6 September 2001
  • Penguin Classics
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 272
  • New Ed
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