The Man in the High Castle | Social Concerns
Most popular novels mirror society and social issues, but in the case of science fiction the mirroring is often indirect, or even distorting. The Man in the High Castle is a good example to study this mirroring because it is, in effect, a double mirror. Technically, it is an alternate-history novel in which the Axis powers won World War II. Franklin Roosevelt is assassinated in 1932, so that America never recovers from the Depression, and an isolationist administration gives the Axis time to invent the atomic bomb and win the war. In addition to this violent shift in political...
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