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The Man In The High Castle Hardcover – Import, 2008
Author: Visit ‘s Philip K. Dick Page ID: 0575082054

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Hardcover: 216 pagesPublisher: Gollancz (2008)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0575082054ISBN-13: 978-0575082052 Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.9 x 8.1 inches Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces Best Sellers Rank: #562,966 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #12282 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Classics #24074 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction
The Man in the High Castle is Dick’s masterpiece. Along with VALIS and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, it completes the trilogy of the author’s essential works. A must read for Dickheads or for anyone who considers himself a serious fan of science fiction. Dick was clearly influenced by two earlier works of alternative history, Sarban’s The Sound of His Horn and C. M. Kornbluth’s "Two Dooms". In turn, The Man in the High Castle has influenced any number of later works, not just Norman Spinrad’s The Iron Dream and the novels of Harry Turtledove, but Ursula LeGuin’s The Lathe of Heaven as well.
This is a very complex, suspenseful novel, consisting of four main plot lines and a host of characters whose lives sometimes interact. Don’t expect any slam-bang pyrotechnic action here, despite the novel’s provocative premise. It’s more a slice of life tale, showing that even after a catastrophic defeat, life in America would go on. Dick is very good at detailing the nuances of life in Axis-ruled America. For example, at one point as an aside, it is pointed out that after the Nazi pograms, the only surviving prewar comedian is Bob Hope, and even he has to broadcast out of Canada. Also, an unintended irony for a novel written in 1962 is Dick’s conjecture that if the United States had lost WWII, we would all be listening to Japanese audio equipment and driving German cars now. The author achieves the near impossible feat of actually being even-handed towards the Nazis without glamorizing them. He describes them at one point as Neanderthals in white lab coats, technological geniuses who have drained the Mediterranean and are conquering the Solar System, yet are morally bankrupt.
OK, first let’s get one thing out of the way – this is a great book, and it’s absolutely irrelevant if you label it "science fiction," "alternative history," or whatever. Except for the purposes of book marketing, who cares anyway? The bottom line is that Philip K. Dick was too complex and intelligent a man for his work to be pinned down into any one genre. And who would want it to be?!? On one level, or course, "The Man in the High Castle" is – at least on the surface and on the jacket cover – about an alternative time line in which America loses World War II (with the Nazis taking over East of the Mississippi, the Japanese West of the Rockies, and the middle being a kind of backwater/no-man’s land). But what is this book really about? My conclusion after reading the book, as well as many of the reviews here and out there on the web, as well as some stuff about Philip K. Dick, as well as talking to a really smart friend of mine who has read the book many times, is that this book is about several main themes, and can be read on several different levels (as most great works of fiction can be).
Thus, in my opinion "The Man in the High Castle" is about, among other things (in no particular order): 1) the lives of Americans under Japanese occupation; 2) the lives of the Japanese occupiers, and especially their interaction with various Americans – white, black, Jewish; 3) the Japanese-German relationship, and the difference in Japanese and German culture; 4) what is the nature of "reality"?; 5) what is "authentic" and what is "fake"?; 6) what constitutes a moral life?

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