A somewhat restrained novel from Dick in which he explores what the world might have been like had the Axis won the war alongside themes he is more usually associated such as the nature of reality.The story presents fragmented narrative, following an array of disparate but interconnected characters ...
An alternative history tale set in a US where the Axis powers won the Second World War. America has been divided into a Japanese colony on the West Coast, a German colony on the East Coast and sort of a midwest buffer state between the two. The themes of the two intertwined stories are familiar to P...
(Best to skip the review and go right to the comments!)Dick seems to have been a very good writer who could have been a magnificient writer -- but who just had too much of the hack in him. He had an astonishinly fertile and vivid imagination, and the ability to bring the reader to a seriousness that...
Preface: I chose this book for my very first real life bookclub meeting ever. There was also much drinking (by me) at this meeting, so... if my review is less than coherent, well, actually, I think that's fitting, isn't it? So, right. I chose this book blindly. Never read PKD before, although I have...
In this alternate history by Philip K. Dick, World War II was won by the Axis, and the world is divided between Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, with Italy holding onto a small bit of the African continent.This may be the most complex and well-constructed piece of speculative fiction I have ever rea...
3.5 - 4 star novel. This was typical Phillip K. Dick fare, clever philosophical science fiction contemplating ideas about religion, society and in many ways what it is to be human. It was a well plotted and thought out book with a complicated plot focusing on multiple points of view as they struggle...
This is a strange novel, or, perhaps more accurately, this is an estranging novel. Philip K. Dick manages to take you on a ride that is sometimes quite comfortable and unchallanging - you can sit back and admire the scenery - then, just when you think you know where you are and that the dirver knows...
Una obra controvertida, magnífica, con una estructura sutil y unos personajes muy creíbles. Nos encontramos a los años 60 pero en un universo paralelo al nuestro, donde Alemania y el Japón han ganado la guerra a los aliados, donde buena parte de África ha sido esclavizada, los judíos continúan perse...
PKD's books seem to resonate with the question. “What is real?” In this case it can mean anything from Americana to the people you meet to the world you think you live in. Three very different America's. One governed by the Japanese which consists of all the west coast as well as some of Nevada. On...
'The Man in the High Castle' was thoroughly enjoyable, I loved the incorporation of West's 'Miss Lonelyhearts'. Too bad it all fell apart at the end. I wasn't sure how to take all of the characters not acting like themselves in the last few chapters.That end was a let down, even if I think I 'get' w...
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