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| - The Man in the High Castle (1962) is an alternate history novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. The novel is set in 1962, fifteen years after the end of a fictional longer Second World War (1939–47). It concerns intrigues between thevictorious Axis Powers—Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany—as they rule over the former U.S., as well as daily life under the resulting totalitarian Fascist and imperialistic rule. Reported inspirations for the work include Ward Moore's alternate Civil War history, Bring the Jubilee (1953), various classic World War II histories, and the I Ching (which is referenced in the novel). The novel includes the construction of a novella within the novel that constitutes an alternate history within this alternate history (wherein the Allied Powers defeat the Axis Powers,
- It is set in an alternative 1962 in which the Allies have lost the Second World War, and Nazi Germany and the Japanese Empire rule the world, the Germans having developed rocket technology that has allowed them to build rockets that will take them to Mars. In this world, the Nazis have destroyed the African continent, drained the Mediterranean and rule most of Europe as well as the wastern parts of what was once known as The United States of America. The Japanese Empire rules most of Asia and south western parts of the United States. A neutral buffer zone called the Rocky Mountain States divides the German and Japanese superpowers.
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| - It is set in an alternative 1962 in which the Allies have lost the Second World War, and Nazi Germany and the Japanese Empire rule the world, the Germans having developed rocket technology that has allowed them to build rockets that will take them to Mars. In this world, the Nazis have destroyed the African continent, drained the Mediterranean and rule most of Europe as well as the wastern parts of what was once known as The United States of America. The Japanese Empire rules most of Asia and south western parts of the United States. A neutral buffer zone called the Rocky Mountain States divides the German and Japanese superpowers. The novel follows the Frank Frink, his estranged wife Julia Frink, the small-time entrepreneur Robert Childan, the mysterious Italian assassin Joe Cinnadella, the German agent Baynes, and the head of the Japanese Imperial Trade Mission in San Francisco Nobuske Tagomi in this dystopic world, all of whose stories are interconnected in one way or another even though some of them never meet in person, learning how reality is not always what it seems. Central objects in the novel are the I Ching book of Taoistic wisdom and a science fiction book called The Grasshopper Lies Heavy which describes and alternative, and much better, world in which the Allies won the war. A TV series loosely based on the novel began streaming on Amazon Video on January 15, 2015.
- The Man in the High Castle (1962) is an alternate history novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. The novel is set in 1962, fifteen years after the end of a fictional longer Second World War (1939–47). It concerns intrigues between thevictorious Axis Powers—Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany—as they rule over the former U.S., as well as daily life under the resulting totalitarian Fascist and imperialistic rule. Reported inspirations for the work include Ward Moore's alternate Civil War history, Bring the Jubilee (1953), various classic World War II histories, and the I Ching (which is referenced in the novel). The novel includes the construction of a novella within the novel that constitutes an alternate history within this alternate history (wherein the Allied Powers defeat the Axis Powers, though in a manner distinct from this actual historical outcome). The Man in the High Castle won a Science Fiction Achievement Award (Hugo Award) in 1963. It has since been translated into many languages, and a recent pilot episode of a television adaptation (January 15, 2015) from Amazon Studios has been greenlighted to run as a series. Various further short works by the same author are reported to serve as follow-up information (short of constituting an actual sequel).
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