The Man in the High

Castle
 By
Philip K. Dick
Penguin Books Ltd
A dazzling speculative novel of 'counterfactual history' from one of
America's most highly-regarded science fiction authors, Philip K.
Dick's The Man in the High Castle includes an introduction by Eric
Brown in Penguin Modern Classics.

Philip K. Dick's acclaimed cult novel gives us a horrifying glimpse

of an alternative world - one where the Allies have lost the Second
World War. In this nightmare dystopia the Nazis have taken over
New York, the Japanese control California and the African
continent is virtually wiped out. In a neutral buffer zone in America
that divides the world's new rival superpowers, lives the author of an
underground bestseller. His book offers a new vision of reality - an
alternative theory of world history in which the Axis powers were
defeated - giving hope to the disenchanted. Does 'reality' lie with
him, or is his world just one among many others?

Philip Kindred Dick (1928-82) was born in Chicago in 1928. His

career as a science fiction writer comprised an early burst of short
stories followed by a stream of novels, typically character studies
incorporating androids, drugs, and hallucinations. His best works
are generally agreed to be The Man in the High Castle and Do
Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, the inspiration for the movie
Blade Runner.

If you enjoyed The Man in the High Castle, you might like Yevgeny
Zamyatin's We, also available in Penguin Classics.

'The most brilliant science fiction mind on any planet'

Rolling Stone
'Dick's finest book, and one of the very best science fiction novels
ever published'
Eric Brown

Penguin Books Ltd

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