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 20 years earlier
the United States lost a war
– and it is now occupied jointly
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.
[ His writing directly inspired the movies :
Total Recall,
.
Minority Report,
A Scanner Darkly,
.
The Adjustment Bureau,
.
Screamers,
.
and Blade Runner ]
.
With “The Man In The High Castle”
Philip K. Dick broke 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 awake.
.
