Interestingly, this trope is also used by the book-within-a-book The Grasshopper Lies Heavy.This is because Dick did not have access to much of the data about WW2 that has become common knowledge since then but was still classified in The '60s when he wrote the novel. By modern standards of alternate-history storytelling, the Nazis and Japanese conquering the USA by 1947 is rather unrealistic (even Hitler himself, in his long-term plans, thought conquering the USA would not be possible for the Germans until The '80s).This eventually verges into Alternate Universe. Alternate History: Both the book itself and the book-within-a-book The Grasshopper Lies Heavy.Please put tropes associated with the series on that page. And to the reader's omniscient eye, the more they cross paths, searching for something truthful in a world of fake kitsch and fake identities, the more the connections between them and their actions becomes apparent.Ī Live-Action Adaptation premiered on Amazon Prime in 2015. In this alternate world the I-Ching is as common as the phone book, and most of the characters rely on sampling the winds of destiny to determine their every move. This book was one of Dick's first to explore eastern mysticism, and marked a turning point away from his earlier, mostly secular anti-fascist novels. Tagomi with a dire warning.īut you come for the fascist dystopia, and you end up staying for the Taoism. Baynes, allegedly a Swedish businessman, who is coming to meet Mr. Tagomi, a ranking Japanese official and regular customer of Childan's Juliana Frink, Frank's ex-wife in the Rocky Mountain States (a neutral buffer-zone between east and west) who becomes engrossed in a mysterious book depicting an alternate universe where the Axis forces lost and Mr. By the time the novel begins Imperial Japan has occupied the west coast of the USA, Nazi Germany has made a puppet state out of the east, and both superpowers have fallen into a Space Cold War paralleling the Real Life one between NATO and the Warsaw Pact.Īs is standard for Dick's stories there are no true heroes, just an ensemble of ordinary schlubs trying to make a living for themselves: Frank Frink, a metalworker who makes fake American kitsch popular with the Japanese Robert Childan, a prominent seller of the aforementioned Americana Mr. With all of Eurasia's resources at their disposal Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan went on to defeat the Commonwealth and, many years down the track, occupy the Americas. ![]() Free China fell and, invaded in two theatres, the USSR was eventually defeated. ![]() Roosevelt in 1933, the USA did not embargo Imperial Japan over her occupation of China and so stayed out of World War II. The novel, which won the Hugo Award, goes through the looking glass into a then-contemporary United States. Dick's career, but also one of the seminal Alternate History novels. The Man in the High Castle, published in 1962, is not only one of the defining works of Philip K. Captain Rudolf Wegener, on how the Grass Is Greener
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