The Man In The High Castle

by Philip K. Dick

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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 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.

  • ISBN10 0575082054
  • ISBN13 9780575082052
  • Publish Date 17 September 2009 (first published 1 May 1974)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 26 November 2015
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Gollancz
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 256
  • Language English