{"id":961,"date":"2015-12-13T22:14:26","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T03:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/?page_id=961"},"modified":"2025-03-03T09:54:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T14:54:18","slug":"on-philip-k-dicks-the-man-in-the-high-castle-1962-and-2015","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/?page_id=961","title":{"rendered":"On Philip K. Dick&#8217;s The Man in the High Castle, 1962 and 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My recent essay on Philip K. Dick&#8217;s 1962 novel, comparing it with Amazon&#8217;s 2015 <em>The Man in the High Castle<\/em>&#8216;s 10 episodes.  Summary:  Amazon&#8217;s adaptation of Dick&#8217;s novel is a brilliant transformation of it just right for America&#8217;s flirtation with fascism in 2015 (Trump, Cruz, et al).  <\/p>\n<p>The novel was unusual for Dick but unleashed a decade of great writing by him:  it&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>When you click on the link below, this .docx file containing the essay will download to your computer, stored in your download folder:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/on-Philip-K-Dick-High-Castle.docx\">on Philip K Dick High Castle<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My recent essay on Philip K. Dick&#8217;s 1962 novel, comparing it with Amazon&#8217;s 2015 The Man in the High Castle&#8216;s 10 episodes. Summary: Amazon&#8217;s adaptation of Dick&#8217;s novel is a brilliant transformation of it just right for America&#8217;s flirtation with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/?page_id=961\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":99,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/961\/revisions\/964"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}