The Man in the High Castle

Posted on 12 July 2017 by Philip K. Dick

It s America in 1962 Slavery is legal once again The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow 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 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. Best Download The Man in the High Castle [ By ] Philip K. Dick [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr On Wednesday I found myself at a party an occurrence itself worthy of remark at which everyone wore I m currently reading stickers, so I had several opportunities to explain why I was loving The Man in the High Castle One such conversation went like this So what s that about Well, it s scifi Or rather speculative fiction Er, hm No I don t do scifi But it s got Nazis Oh my god I love Nazis Another conversation involved me explaining to a white guy how interesting I a half Ja On Wednesday I found myself at a party an occurrence itself worthy of remark at which everyone wore I m currently reading stickers, so I had several opportunities to explain why I was loving The Man in the High Castle One such conversation went like this So what s that about Well, it s scifi Or rather speculative fiction Er, hm No I don t do scifi But it s got Nazis Oh my god I love Nazis Another conversation involved me explaining to a white guy how interesting I a half Japanese guy found reading about defeated white Americans kowtowing to their Japanese overlords The awkwardness of the words coming out of my mouth did not even occur to me for several sentences.I m pretty sure at some point during the evening I also said, with party speaking volume, I think I really like Dick Sometimes I wish English had fewer homophones.Suffice it to say that I am swearing off parties and returning to ...Original review, Feb 22 2016 DISCLAIMER It would evidently be irresponsible to call Donald Trump a Nazi merely on the strength of a recent speech in which he suggested it would be desirable to shoot Muslims using bullets dipped in pig s blood Aplausible interpretation is that this is nothan the result of dispassionately calculating that the upside in terms of increasing his attractiveness to the ignorant racist demographic is larger than the downside in terms of decreasing his appOriginal review, Feb 2...3.5Scientifically and politically, this is absolute genius The way Philip K Dick masterfully rewrites history and expertly portrays this alternate United States is quite incredible and I can easily see why the guy has such a huge following That being said, this novel is what I would call hard sci fi , and though it is undeniably clever, I think what it lacks is a human touch I found it hard to care about any of the mish mash of characters, which for me means that I ultimately found it hard 3.5Scientifically and politically, this is absolute genius The way Philip K Dick masterfully rewrites history and expertly portrays this alternate United States is quite incredible and I can easily see why the guy has such a huge following That being said, this novel is what I would call hard sci fi , and though it is undeniably clever, I think what it lacks is a human touch I found it hard to care about any of the mish mash of characters, which for me means that I ultimately found it hard to care about the direction of the story and its outcome.What this novel does best of all is remind people how close the Nazis came to winning the second world war The author changes events during the war only slightly but it makes a huge difference in the long run Generally, people who aren t historians probably don t tend to think about the reality of this situation which for most people alive today seems of a completely different world and time The second world war seems somewhat un... Thank God, this is fiction, at least in our dimensionWELCOME TO 1962It is impossible that ours is the only world there must be world after world unseen by us, in some region or dimension that we simply do not perceive. This book is a frightening glimpse of how our world could been if the Axis Powers would have won the World War II.The Nazi Germany and the Imperial Japan won and they divided the planet between them Even the United States is now divided with the East Coast dominated by Na Thank God, this is fiction, at least in our di...Fans of Philip K Dick and science fiction might be underwhelmed by The Man in the High Castle since, other than passing mention of cross continent rocket ship travel and a German exploration of Mars, there really isn t any science or signature PKD craziness or large scale action rather, Dick s 1962 book is alternative history, the aftermath in the United States after Germany and Japan win World War II and a novel of ideas There are a number of crisscrossing plots, colorful main characters, a Fans of Philip K Dick and science fiction might be underwhelmed by The Man in the High Castle since, other than passing mention of cross continent rocket ship travel and a German exploration of Mars, there really isn t any science or signature PKD craziness or large scale action rather, Dick s 1962 book is alternative history, the aftermath in the United States after Germany and Japan win World War II and a novel of ideas There are a number of crisscrossing plots, colorful main characters, applications of the ancient Chinese I Ching however, by my reading, the heartbeat of the novel is the author s historical, political, social commentary, reflections on cross cultural misco...High concept, low return what if alternate history The idea is interesting, if a little tired what if the Axis won World War II and divvied up the world between Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan The answer is, not much, apparently This new world order only really serves as a backdrop for Dick s slightly skewed storytelling, which jumps between theinteresting plot of a shadow conspiracy to nuke Japan, and a painfully tiresome tale of modern day antiquing Somewhere else i...They want to be the agents, not the victims, of history They identify with God s power and believe they are godlike That is their basic madness They are overcome by some archtype their egos have expanded psychotically so that they cannot tell where they begin and the godhead leaves off It is not hubris, not pride it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate confusion between him who worships and that which is worshiped Man has not eaten God God has eaten man If Franklin Delano Roosev They want to be the agents, not the victims, of history They identify with God s power and believe they are godlike That is their basic madness They are overcome by some archtype their egos have expanded psychotically so that they cannot tell where they begin and the godhead leaves off It is not hubris, not pride it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate confusion between him who worships and that which is worshiped Man has not eaten God God has eaten man If Franklin Delano Roosevelt had been assassinated in 1934 instead of dying of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1...Philip K Dick was certainly a brilliant man and a gifted writer His imagined dystopia of a world split between the victorious Reich and Imperial Japan is chilling and realistic Ok, perhaps colonisation of Mars in 1962 is a bit of a stretch, but the depiction of San Francisco under the Japanese administration was excellent His characters were vivid and lifelike His villain was somewhat predicable, but still a fascinating one The dystopia he describes particularly the horrors of unbridled f Philip K Dick was certainly a brilliant man and a gifted writer His imagined dystopia of a world split between the victorious Reich and Imperial Japan is chilling and realistic Ok, perhaps colonisation of Mars in 1962 is a bit of a stretch, but the depiction of San Francisco under the Japanese administration was excellent His characters were vivid and ...I think this book broke my brain.I mean, it s so many things tied up in a slim little volume an alt history what if Germany and Japan had won the Second World War, a meditation on the inability to ever accurately try to reconstruct what might have beens, one of the most interesting literary experiments I ve ever read, a look at chance and fate in how the world unfolds, and a book that can definitely bend your sense of reality.Note The rest of this review has been withdrawn due to the recent I think this book broke my brain.I mean, it s so many things tied up in a slim little volume an alt history what if Germany and Japan had won the Second World War, a meditation on ...My preparedness for the regime change taking place in the United States with elements of the Electoral College, the Kremlin and the FBI helping to install a failed business promoter who the majority of American voters did not support in the election continues with The Man In the High Castle, the Hugo Award winning novel by Philip K Dick published in 1962 Dick s sheer output and high concept hooks that can be reduced to three words Axis Won WWII have proved irresistible to film and televi My preparedness for the regime change taking place in the United States with elements of the Electoral College, the Kremlin and the FBI helping to install a failed business promoter who ...

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12 July 2017

Philip K. Dick