About the book
The Man in the High Castle
by Philip K. Dick
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.
Applicable categories for the Urban Read Harder Challenge:
Up late
For fans of
- The TV series of the same name (it is quite different than the book!)
- Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- 11/22/63 by Stephen King
- Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
- The Plot Against America by Philip Roth