Cover of The Man in the High CastleB
FinishedApril 30, 2013
GradeB
GenreScience Fiction
PublisherOrion, 1979
★ Review · April 30, 2013

The Man in the High Castle

by Philip K. Dick


There are things that I loved about this book, but I didn't love the ending.

Publisher Description

'Dick's best work, and the most memorable alternative world tale...ever written' SCIENCE FICTION: THE 100 BEST NOVELS 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 it's 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 didn't 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.

Where this fits · 2013 reading log
Book 28 of 2013 · the 10th Science Fiction read of the year.