It is 1962 and the Second World War has been over for seventeen years: people have now had a chance to adjust to the new order. But its not been easy. The Mediterranean has been... more
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The Book of Change. Review ofThe Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dickby
theediscerning
Advantages: Good concept Disadvantages: Poorly executed
...as much that lies in the category of Art > Modern Art > British can be summarised in just a few words ("dead shark in liquid"), so much in the way of Fiction > Science Fiction > Alternate Worlds/Realities can be described in a similarly short way. In the case of The Man in the High Castle, it would be "WW2 ended the other way round".
But just as we might like also to know what liquid, how the shark is portrayed, the dimensions of the tank, etc, ... ...this case, it would be the following.
Japan and The Nazis managed to win the second world war, and as a result became the super-powers. The Germans have ploughed on ahead with those new-fangled plastics, and now the world is littered with Lufthansa skyways, rocketing people around the globe in minutes. They also have the monopoly on the rest of the solar system too, von Braun (presumably) getting all the industrialists out there and bringing all ...
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Alternate history Review ofThe Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dickby
NeilHudson
Advantages: Highly readable and thought-provoking Disadvantages: The benign dictatorship isn't a convincing concept.
"The Man in the High Castle" is one of the dozen best Philip K Dick novels, and therefore stands among the best sf novels of all time. The scenario is familiar - an alternate world in which the allies lost the Second World War - but Dick's use of this scenario is unique.
Although the Nazis are pursuing their unspeakable policies in Africa, the action takes place in an unexpectedly benign Japanese dictatorship. Some of the characters, using the I ... ...the real one. Crucially, neither is ours: the real version has been published in an sf novel called "The Grasshopper Lies Heavy". Dick's own novel could therefore be viewed as a metaphor for the creative process, in which the author strives to find the truth in his words, but only a fictional, Platonic author can achieve it.
This is not to say that the novel is dense, difficult or unreadable. Dick always couches his philosophical questing in highly ...
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It is 1962 and the Second World War has been over for seventeen years: people have now had a chance to adjust to the new order. But its not been easy. The Mediterranean has been drained to make farmland, the population of Africa has virtually been wiped out and America has been divided between the Nazis and the Japanese. In the neutral buffer zone that divides the two superpowers lives the man in the high castle, the author of an underground bestseller, a work of fiction that offers an alternative theory of world history in which the Axis powers didnt win the war. The novel is a rallying cry for all those who dream of overthrowing the occupiers. But could it be more than that? Subtle, complex and beautifully characterized, The Man in the High Castle remains the finest alternative world novel ever written, and a work of profundity and significance.
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