The Man in the High Castle

from Nickidemus

The BasicsAn alternate history wherein Japan and Germany won World War II. And things are as dystopiate (is that a word? I just invented it) as one would expect.My ThoughtsThe thing one must realize when approaching a Philip K. Dick novel is that he doesn't write normal stories. In the slightest....

from santhony

Philip Dick is one of the most influential writers in science fiction history. After penning numerous magnificent novels, he gradually spiraled into depression and ultimately insanity. Much of his later work is simply unreadable by mere mortals such as me. This is a relatively short (235 pages) w...

from PhoenixTerran

Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle is one of those classic science fiction novels that I've been meaning to read for ages but for one reason or another never quite got around to. Recently, though, the novel seems to be popping up wherever I turn: Viz Media's speculative fiction imprint H...

from bamajasper53

I read this as a teenager around 1970, when I was reading a lot of alternative history books such as If the South had won the Civil War and On the Beach. It led me briefly to investigate the I Ching, but I lost interest in that, as I have a disinclination concerning supernatural divination. Now a...

from kleos_aphthiton

Well, I really didn't know what to expect going into this one. I've read a lot of alternate history, but almost no Philip K. Dick. What I found was delightfully different, disorienting, horrifying and humorous, and oh-so-meta. I feel like I need to go read a bunch more Dick to get a sense of what...