The Man in the High Castle

Informationen zum Autor Philip Kindred Dick (1928-82) was born in Chicago, but lived most of his life in California. His career as a science fiction writer comprised an early burst of short stories followed by a stream of novels, typically incorporating androids, drugs, and hallucinations. His most famous books include The Man in the High Castle , A Scanner Darkly and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? , the inspiration for the movie Blade Runner . Klappentext Imagine the world if the Allies had lost the Second World War... Philip K. Dick trips the switches of our minds with his vision of the world as it might have been: the African continent virtually wiped out, the Mediterranean drained to make farmland, the United States divided between the Japanese and the Nazis...In the neutral zone that divides the rival superpowers in America lives the author of an underground best-seller. His book - a rallying cry for all those who dream of overthrowing the occupiers - offers an alternative theory of world history. Does 'reality' lie with him, or is his world just one among many others? Zusammenfassung Gives us a horrifying glimpse of an alternative world - one where the Allies have lost the Second World War.

Product details

• Authors: Eric Brown, Philip K Dick, Philip K. Dick
• Assisted by: Eric Brown (Introduction)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.09.2001
• EAN: 9780141186672
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118667-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy; FICTION / Thrillers / Espionage, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Alternative History, FICTION / Science Fiction / Military, Political / legal thriller, Classic fiction, United States of America, USA, Classic science fiction, c 1960 to c 1969, Alternative history fiction