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The Man in the High Castle (Essential Penguin) (Paperback)

by Philip K. Dick (Author) "For a week Mr R. Childan had been anxiously watching the mail ..." (more)
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Product details

  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (1 Jul 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140285628
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140285628
  • Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11.4 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 93,585 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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  • Other Editions: Hardcover  |  Paperback (New edition) |  Mass Market Paperback  |  Library Binding (Reprint) |  CD-ROM (MP3 Una) |  All Editions


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The teratological curiosity of the American reading public, whetted and abetted by the press, could have made this novel a sure best seller. Consider the premises upon which Mr. Dick bases his book. They are fascinating: What if the Axis powers had won World War II? What if Germany and Japan had divided after conquering in 1947...Capitulation Day it is called? He takes the hypothesis one step further. It is fifteen years later... 1962. Africa is a "huge empty ruin" sacrificed to Nazi Medicare. The Mediterranean sea has been entirely drained, converted to tillable land. The "blond queens", the "near men" of the Gestapo have found a new use for the big toe. San Francisco is occupied by the Japanese. Old Adolph is in some sanitarium with syphilis of the brain and Martin Borman, heretofore the top man, has just died leaving the Axis powers with a choice among Goebbels, Heydrich, Goehring von Schirach and a couple of other cuties. How did the a