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Philip K. Dick: The man in the high castle (2015, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

274 pages

Langue : English

Publié 18 septembre 2015 par Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

ISBN :
978-0-544-81728-9
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Numéro OCLC :
922630594

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4 étoiles (1 critique)

Overview: 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 twenty years earlier the United States lost a war-and is now occupied 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 while breaking 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 wake.

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I read this book because I'd seen a couple of episodes of the TV series. Honestly, as usual, the book is better. They took a lot of liberties with the series (only way to stretch a relatively short book that long,) and the characters are sometimes quite different.

This is classic Phillip K. Dick. Dystopian alternative future. It's very conceptual, rather than character-driven, although a couple of the characters are better developed than the rest. Worth a read, for sure.

Sujets

  • American Science fiction
  • American Political fiction
  • National socialism
  • Fiction
  • Freedom of the press
  • Slavery
  • Totalitarianism
  • Nazis
  • Jews
  • FICTION / Science Fiction / General

Lieux

  • United States