LIKE NEW!! 2015 Folio Society Best Seller - MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE

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LIKE NEW 2015 Folio Society Best Seller - "The Man in the High Castle" by Philip K. Dick'On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives'In 1962 Philip K. Dick conjured a new vision of our world - a twisted simulacrum in which the Axis Powers have won the Second World War. America is now divided: the eastern United States is the puppet of a maniacal German Reich, while the western Pacific seaboard is governed by a militaristic, yet spiritual, Japanese dictatorship. Amongst the complexities of this new existence, a group of unremarkable people - an American- Jewish craftsman, a judo instructor, a Japanese diplomat - play out their everyday lives, each striving to uncover a remnant of goodness in the shadow of a gathering evil. As their narratives intersect, Dick poses larger metaphysical questions concerning the authentication of history, perception and the building blocks of destiny.The Man in the High Castle is considered to be Dick's greatest novel, and was awarded the Hugo Award in 1963. With it, he jettisoned the traditional trappings of science fiction that had defined much of his previous work. Gone were the spaceships, strange worlds and telepaths; what remained were the ideas that had begun to set him apart as a significant thinker of the age. As Ursula K. Le Guin discusses read more

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