The Basics An 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 Thoughts The thing one must realize when approaching a Philip K. Dick novel is that he doesn’t write normal stories. In the slig...
It is a very good book set in a world where the Axis powers won the second world war. It focuses on ordinary people of no very great importance trying to understand their situation.The novel is alive with ideas. They complexly interact with one another. In part it is about evil and that evil which...
Just started reading this so I'm not sure yet what I think about it. I got it because Ursula K. Le Guin said at one point that it was the best science fiction novel ever, or something like that. So far it's done one cool thing which is show me my American privilege, that I'm not usually very aware o...
PKD has 'Bladerunner,' (a/k/a 'Do Androids Dream...') and then perhaps half-a-dozen more solid works of fiction in a career marked by prolific output of uneven quality. If I could save only one PKD novel, I think it would be this one, although a case may be made for 'Ubik' and of course the question...
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 sc...
I once spoke briefly with a relative of mine about story construction. His advice, which he followed from Kurt Vonnegut, was to establish the central conflict of the story early (i.e., what is the goal of the story?). In doing so the reader isn't left to wonder why they're bothering to read the book...
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 expe...
1. The surface storySet in 1962, fourteen years after the end of a longer WW2 (1939-1948). The victorious Axis Powers (Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and Italy) carved up the world at the end of the war. The Nazis have turned the Mediterranean into a huge agricultural area, killed the entire populati...
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