Science Fiction · DarkFifteen years after the Axis powers won World War II, the former United States is divided between Japan and Germany
The Man in the High Castle
A divided America, and a banned novel that imagines the war going the other way
Putnam published the novel in October 1962. It is set in 1962, fifteen years after the Axis powers won World War II. The former United States is partitioned, with Imperial Japan controlling the Pacific States of America, Nazi Germany controlling the East and the Rocky Mountain States as a neutral buffer. The cast includes Robert Childan, Nobusuke Tagomi, Frank and Juliana Frink and Hawthorne Abendsen. The book contains a novel within the novel, The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, which imagines an Allied victory.
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Who
Robert Childan, Nobusuke Tagomi, Frank Frink, Juliana Frink and Hawthorne Abendsen.
World
A 1962 in which the Axis powers won the war and divided the United States.
What makes it different
Dick cited William L. Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and Richard Wilhelm's translation of the I Ching as influences. Amazon Prime Video adapted it as a television series in 2015.
Feel
Uneasy and quiet.
Page count and cover shown for: Selected edition
Further reading
- The Man in the High CastleWikipedia