“The single most resonant and carefully imagined book of Dick’s career.” –New York Times
It’s America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, theI Chingis as common as theYellow Pages. All because some twenty years earlier the United States lost a war—and is now occupied by Nazi Germany and Japan.
This harrowing, Hugo … Japan.
This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas. In it Dick offers a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to wake.
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A well written interesting tale of “what if World War II ended with Germany and Japan as the victors?” It kept my attention and offered some thought provoking alternatives.
The many-worlds hypothesis, except they bleed into one another. Don’t read the afterword first. (There, now you WILL go read it first. Or will you?)
This book left me with the feeling that I had wasted my time trying to figure out what was going on. There was no resolution to anything.
The classic novel that was the basis for the outstanding Amazon series is a very thought-provoking novel that shows where many of the inspirations for the series came from, while telling a quite different and less sweeping story. The characters in the novel are more constrained due to the much more limited scope of the story, but in some cases …
Disappointing
This book explores a world in which the Allies were defeated in World War II. The Amazon streaming series was based loosely on this book. It’s a very though-provoking read.
Waste of time. Several different story lines progress in parallel and I assumed at least one of them would result in something interesting. They did not. And I have absolutely no idea what happened in Juliana’s meeting with the Man in the High Castle, at the end.
Too hard to keep track of the characters or the plot line
The more a book sits on the shelf and waits for its turn, the higher its expectations. It’s a risk.
And I let this book wait too long, So the beat rose and went beyond what I had planned in the first place; therefore there was some disappointment.
I expected to feel in a world of Radical people, to explore the fear in the streets. I tried to …
Slow, disjointed, obtuse, somewhat dull
Very disappointed
A subtle – perhaps subdued – alternate history of post-WWII given the fight to the last man reality of that winner-take-all genocidal blood-fest.
America is shared between the victorious Japanese in the west and Germans in the East and while PHD does a fine job imagining what that might look like on some levels – he completely misses the blunt …
I Finished It. Going into this book, I was thinking it would be something dramatically different based on what I had heard of the Amazon show. Instead, I got a fairly bleak look at a world where Nazi Germany won WWII, with the Big Reveal literally in the last few pages of the book. Knowing Dick is one of the legends of science fiction, I expected …
A PKD novel is always great. This was award winner.