The Man in the High Castle (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Philip K. Dick
- First Published: 1962
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—alternate history
- Time of Work: Shortly after World War II
- Setting: San Francisco, California, and elsewhere in the western United States
- 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 Plot
The Man in the High Castle is probably the finest and certainly the most influential alternative history novel ever written, evidenced by its Hugo Award for best novel of 1962 and allusions to it in subsequent alternative histories. It is set shortly after an Axis victory in World War II, which led to partitioning of the United States into the German-controlled eastern region, the Japanese-occupied West Coast, and a buffer zone in the Rocky Mountain states. In contrast to the brutal Nazi regime, Japanese control is more cultural and economic in nature than...
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