On Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle, 1962 and 2015

My recent essay on Philip K. Dick’s 1962 novel, comparing it with Amazon’s 2015 The Man in the High Castle‘s 10 episodes. Summary: Amazon’s adaptation of Dick’s novel is a brilliant transformation of it just right for America’s flirtation with fascism in 2015 (Trump, Cruz, et al).

The novel was unusual for Dick but unleashed a decade of great writing by him: it’s an experiment in counter-factual history, imagining what might have happened in the U.S. if Japan and Germany had got the A-Bomb first and won World War II.

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