The Man in the High Castle (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Philip K. Dick
- First Published: 1962
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Alternate history
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Authors or writers, World War II, California, West, U.S., San Francisco, Nazism or Nazis, Germany or German people, Japan or Japanese people, Antiques
- Locales: United States, San Francisco, CA
The Man in the High Castle belongs to the subgenre of science fiction known as alternate history. Most science-fiction novels postulate future developments (ranging from intergalactic travel to all manner of bionic devices) which have brought about a world much different from that of the reader. In contrast, alternate-history novels look into the past, imagining how subsequent history might have developed if the outcome of some key events or series of events had been different. Ward Moore's novel Bring the Jubilee (1953), for example, is based on the premise that the...
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