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| | The Man in the High Castle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Man in the High Castle is a 1962 alternate history novel by science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. | | | The book's author, Hawthorne Abendsen, is rumored to live in a highly guarded fortress; his nickname is "the Man in the High Castle," from which the novel itself is named. | | | Dick claims that he wrote The Man in the High Castle, using the ancient Chinese philosophical text the I Ching (or Book of Changes) to decide on plot development. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_High_Castle
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| | Eric Brown - Short Stories - The Man In The High Castle |
| | Thus freed, she is able to continue to her rendezvous with the Man in the High Castle. | | | The Man in the High Castle, in its depiction of little people living small lives with honour and confusion - and in its examination of the conflicting ideas of totalitarianism and Eastern philosophy - is perhaps Dick's finest book, and one of the very best science fiction novels ever published. | | | Set in contemporary America (circa 1962), The Man in the High Castle has none of the trappings of his SF to that point: no air-cars or rocket-ships, talking gadgets or telepaths. |
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http://website.lineone.net/~ianw/ericbrown/manhighcastle.htm
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| | Amazon.co.uk: The Man in the High Castle (S.F.Masterworks S.): Books |
| | THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE is Philip K. Dick's masterpiece, and one of the greatest achievments in modern literature. | | | In the neutral buffer zone that divides the two superpowers lives the man in the high castle, the author of an underground bestseller, a work of fiction that offers an alternative theory of world history in which the Axis powers didn't win the war. | | | The novel is a rallying cry for all those who dream of overthrowing the occupiers. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0575073357
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| | Lorenzo DeTommaso- Redemption in Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle |
| | Dick was not a Pauline scholar, a gnostic acolyte, or a Taoist holy man; rather, he was a composer of speculative fiction who drew regularly from a deep reservoir of ideas into which had been poured a substantial measure of dualistic philosophy. | | | In the world of MHC, Hitler still lives, and although locked away in a sanitarium, his insane babbling is still regarded by the hierarchy as scripture. | | | Her dialogue with the other protagonists is negligible, and Suvin identifies her as the center of the "locomotive plot" of the novel (10). |
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http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/77/ditommaso77.htm
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| | The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick - an infinity plus review |
| | Readings of The Man in the High Castle have tended to concentrate on the relativist philosophy of History the novel embodies, for what are doubtless obvious reasons. | | | Living in the castle of the book's title in the Rockies, Abendsen has consulted the ancient Chinese book of Changes, the I Ching, and used his readings of it to write a sort of Science Fiction potboiler, an alternate-reality tale in which America and the Allies win the Second World War. | | | Because we live in a world in which real Nazis made lampshades and the like out of real people, this grisly recitative never strays into the phantasmagoric; its black humour remains a commentary upon the actual world as well as upon Dick's imagined alternate universe. |
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http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/highcastle.htm
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| | Philip K. Dick - The Man in the High - science fiction novel summary |
| | Tagomi, the novel's main character works for a trade company and faces moral dilemmas throughout the book that involve his sense of what's right and wrong. | | | Dick himself used the I Ching to help him write the book, giving the story a spontaneous, open-ended quality. | | | His book offers a new vision of reality, giving hope to the disenchanted. |
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http://www.geocities.com/pkdlw/MIHC.html
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| | Philip K. Dick: The Man in the High Castle |
| | This book is as important a part of The Man in the High Castle as the Nazis are. | | | Dick's book is not about any one person, not even the man in the high castle. | | | I chose to read The Man in the High Castle, simply because of availability of the book. |
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http://www.niksula.cs.hut.fi/~thasu/kie-98.117/tmithc.html
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| | Carter, "The Metacolonization of The Man in the High Castle" |
| | Fanon asserts that "The look that the native turns on the settler's town is a look of lust, a look of envy; it expresses his dreams of possession--all manner of possession: to sit at the settler's table, to sleep in the settler's bed, with his wife if possible. | | | The colonized man is an envious man" (39). | | | Nor does it allow the Kasouras' scrimshaw to suggest the near-extinction of whales caused by the whaling industry, the near-extinction of elephants in man's quest for ivory, or the tendency of those sailors, when they weren't carving scrimshaws, to kidnap Africans for sale as slaves. |
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http://www.msu.edu/user/carterca/dick.htm
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| | Exultate Justi |
| | The violent man - one who thirsts for blood, and relishes the destruction of his fellow human being - is thoroughly condemned by Scripture. | | | He is a faithful man, an elder and mentor to many in his 50 years of peacemaking, a man prepared to pay the cost. | | | In the same way, however, the failure to act against this man is also condemned. |
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http://strategicintelligence.blogspot.com
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| | Books (etc) We Like |
| | The Man in the High Castle has a dreamy fantastical air about it and what is actually reality may be in question. | | | the middle of the us mainland is something like a no mans land left to the u.s. | | | I don't think the book would even be popular, much less nominated in the present. |
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http://bookswelike.net/isbn/0679740678
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| | Barnes & Noble.com - Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick - Paperback |
| | The novel's "man in the high castle" is the author of an underground bestseller about an alternate world where America won the war. | | | The fact that Dick wrote this book with the I Ching adds another level of wonder; the fact that Dick basically included himself in the book blurs reality inside and outside the book. | | | Reading this book is like counting to infinity. |
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http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=hJ7yuXZCJ0&isbn=0679740678&itm=1
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| | Matthew Yglesias: The Man In The High Castle |
| | Interesting ruminations on the book from Eve Tushnet. | | | I don't know if this is like a totally obvious observation in the world of Dick fandom, but what I think is really, really fantastic about the novel is this. | | | You don't really have to re-read the book, Matt. |
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http://yglesias.typepad.com/matthew/2006/02/the_man_in_the_.html
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| | Man in the High Castle, The - Philip K. Dick - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk |
| | This is amongst author Philip K Dick's finest work, detailing an alternate history in which the Allies lost the Second World War. | | | In the neutral area between the two states, an underground author writes his own vision of reality, "The Grasshopper Lies Heavy", an... | | | Man in the High Castle, The - Philip K. Dick - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk |
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http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/printed-books/man-in-the-high-castle-the-philip-k-dick
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| | Philip K Dick Biography: PopSubCulture.com's The Biography Project |
| | Those familiar with the plot of The Man In the High Castle will recognize Dick's real life circumstances, i.e., the jewelry making, as inspiration for one of the central themes of the novel. | | | Link to the excellent, detailed essay "The Meaning In The Man In the High Castle" by Laura E. Campbell. | | | The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike [1984?] |
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http://www.popsubculture.com/pop/bio_project/philip_k_dick.html
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| | Book of the Week (12/12/2001: Philip K. Dick: The Man in the High Castle |
| | Something about the way the man wrote about his experiences was simply not human, Dick stated: it was inhuman to complain that one was being kept awake at night by the cries of starving children. | | | ow would scarcely be a better time to reappraise a book like The Man in the High Castle, a novel about history-as-nightmare. | | | High Castle counterpoints this with another worldview, one which is more deterministic -- i.e., that there is a balance of all things which humanity has no real place in dictating. |
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http://www.thegline.com/book-of-the-week/2001/12-12-2001.htm
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| | His Dark Materials.org - SPEAKING VOLUMES: The man in the high castle |
| | But part of Sir Vidia’s speech mirrors a universal nervousness about High Literature and how to defend it from the barbarians at the gates. | | | I merely say that all reading for pleasure is escape, whether it be Greek, mathematics, astronomy, Benedetto Croce, or The Diary of the Forgotten Man.” | | | Once you explode these two shibboleths, the idea that literature can be disbarred because it belongs to the wrong category, or because it offers escape as well as insight, what’s left of Sir Vidia’s complaint? |
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http://www.hisdarkmaterials.org/article392.html
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| | What are Philip K. Dick's best works? Ask MetaFilter |
| | My favorite Dick novels are Ubik, and the Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (one of my favorite books); The Man in the High Castle is over-rated but still pretty good; his other books, like a previous poster suggested, just feel like padded-out short stories. | | | He was also rather fond of Flow My Tears the Policeman Said and The Man in the High Castle. | | | I also enjoyed the Shifting Realities non-fiction collection, and a volume of his later short stories collected under the title of I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon. |
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http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/18109#301113
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| | Speak Stiltedly and Wear a Yellow Shirt » The Consciousness Plague, The Man in the High Castle |
| | But Pulitzer misfires aside, there was an SF book in The Man in the High Castle, and it wasn’t the meta-book all the characters were reading. | | | Speaking of passing yourself off as mainstream, I read a classic of the SF-in-denial genre, The Man in the High Castle. | | | The Consciousness Plague, The Man in the High Castle |
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http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/wordpress/2002/10/03/the-consciousness-plague-the-man-in-the-high-castle
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| | ScienceFiction |
| | W Apr 6 The Female Man, Parts 4-5 (57-104) | | | Kim Stanley Robinson, "The Leap Up" from The Novels of Philip K Dick (on The Man in the High Castle) | | | F Apr 8 The Female Man, Parts 6-7 (105-155) |
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http://www.willamette.edu/~fmichel/ScienceFiction.htm
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| | Philip K. Dick's Science-Fiction Novels of the Early 1960s |
| | The recurrence of the theme of the discovery of living ancient ancestors in modern times, as in Dick’s The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike and The Simulacra, suggests a symbolic incursion into modern consciousness of the buried, primitive self. | | | Nevertheless, this book partakes of the brilliance of the overall concept that runs through Dick’s work in this period. | | | Except for Jim Briskin, the first black man ever to run for president, there seem to be none who are not mired down in petty, personal, materialistic concerns. |
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http://www.quantumcosmos.com/philipkdick-early60s.htm
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| | The Man in the High Castle - definition of The Man in the High Castle in Encyclopedia |
| | An interesting aspect of The Man in the High Castle is that Dick claimed to have written it using the same method that the novelist in the book had used to write his novel, that is, using the I Ching (the Chinese Book of Changes) to decide on plot development. | | | An alternative history novel published in 1962, Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle is set in the United States, 15 years after being defeated by the Axis powers in World War II. | | | The Man in the High Castle - definition of The Man in the High Castle in Encyclopedia |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/The_Man_in_the_High_Castle
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| | LiteratureForums.net - Philip K. Dick Rocks! |
| | I love Philip K. Dicks books, especially The Man In The High Castle and The short story of minority report. | | | I'd love to hear your opinion of the book so as to help make sense of my reading. | | | 04-06-2004 02:38 AM The Man in the High Castle was my first introduction to PKD, and it was fantastic. |
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http://www.literatureforums.net/vb3/printthread.php?t=2120
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| | Classic Science Fiction Reviews |
| | Two of this short work's memorable characters, Tagomi and Childan, experience soul-shaking crises that bear directly on the interplay of powerfully different cultures. | | | A furious German interdict only incites sales in the West, where the Japanese are merely bemused. | | | Far from learning the brotherhood of man, they emerge awed and disturbed by the chasms carved between humans during centuries of self-sustaining traditions--Europeans, Americans, and Orientals alike. |
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http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue110/classic.html
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| | Cloggie :: Booklog :: The Man in the High Castle |
| | Naturally this book is not only banned in Boston, but through the entire German controlled USA and Europe; possession punishable by gaschamber. | | | Which is about the perfect age to read Philip K. Dick, as he is so nicely subversive; you need authors like that at fifteen. | | | Cloggie: booklog 2004: The Man in the High Castle |
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| | I Ching Community Discussion Forum: Science Fiction and Yi Jing |
| | Um, I truly love Man in The High Castle, but it's too late for me to say anything clever. | | | It's a truly wonderful book, and that apparently, as per the bio by E. Carrere, it was really written rather like the description of Hawthorne Abendsen's way of writing. | | | I hope many of you read Philip K. Dick's "The Man in the High Castle". |
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http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/I_Ching_community/messages/92/4341.html?1115088068
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| | Wikipedia:Featured articles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Tolkien · Rudyard Kipling · Krazy Kat · H.P. Lovecraft · Middle-earth · Modernist poetry in English · George Moore · Objectivist poets · The Old Man and the Sea · Ormulum · Oroonoko · Chuck Palahniuk · Peterborough Chronicle · Poetry of the United States · The Protocols of the Elders of Zion · | | | England expects that every man will do his duty · Epaminondas · | | | Samantha Smith · Sassanid Empire · Scotland in the High Middle Ages · Second Crusade · Sino-German cooperation (1911-1941) · |
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| | Philip K. Dick Books for Sale From Rudy's Books |
| | $12.00 SF The Unteleported Man BERKLEY 06252 '83 vg.. | | | $5.00 SF THE GOLDEN MAN, Berkley, SFBC, (code K27 on page 325) near fine book in vg dustjacket. | | | $8.50 SF The Man in the High Castle BERK 02543 '74 vg.. |
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| | The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick |
| | Dick also wrote a number of mainstream novels, most of which were published posthumously: Mary and the Giant, The Broken Bubble, Puttering About in a Small Land, In Milton Lumky Territory, Confessions of a Crap Artist, The Man Whose Teeth were All Exactly Alike, and Humpty Dumpty in Oakland. | | | There are many books written about the author Philip K. Dick. | | | This alternate history, science fiction book is set in the 1960s in a world in which the Allies lost World War II. |
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| | Bloomsbury.com - Bookshop - The Man in the High Castle |
| | The Man In The High Castle is a tale of alternative history in which an underground writer, living in a post-1945 world where the Allies lost the war, writes his own alternate history, and somewhere along the line reality becomes a question mark in all our diaries. | | | Beware: the truth may not be in here... | | | Bloomsbury.com - Bookshop - The Man in the High Castle |
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| | Powell's Books - The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick |
| | Powell's Books - The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick | | | Dick, Philip K. Read our INK Q&A with Christopher Moore and save 30% on A Dirty Job | | | I Am Alive and You Are Dead: A Journey into the Mind of Philip K. Dick |
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http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0679740678-5
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| | Dummes Weibchen - The Man in the High Castle review |
| | Tagomi, a Japanese man that buys a silver triangular piece of jewelry while searching for meaning after a turn of events. | | | However, the book begins to explain that counterfeiting is high, and the so-called historicity is merely perceived in many cases. | | | The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick |
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http://dummes.freeservers.com/books/manincastle.html
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| | Steve's Hugo Reviews |
| | Unlike much of Turtledove's (and therefore most modern alternate history) books, this is not a grand, sweeping, epic of Great Personages involved in Great Events. | | | The world of The Man in the High Castle diverges from ours when, a year into his first term, FDR is assassinated (whathisname...Zengara? | | | Well, from the moment you open the book, you know this is no Harry Turtledove novel. |
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| | Review: The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick |
| | One character makes her way across the middle of the country determined to meet him, with ambiguous results that form the clearest conclusion of the book. | | | The world in this fictional novel is still not our world, extrapolating some things poorly and making the sort of funny mistakes that one expects any alternate history would make, making puzzling out the problems with it a fun sub-plot of its own. | | | Review: The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick |
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| | michaelduff: The Man in the High Castle |
| | I am halfway through the Philip K. Dick's book, The Man in the High Castle. | | | And from the 1st to the 21st century, the quickest way to change a man's mind is to put your boot at his throat. | | | One of the most compelling "Hitler wins the war" stories ever written, and perhaps the best Philip K. Dick I've ever read. |
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| | » GPod Audio Books: The Man in the High Castle By Philip K. Dick |
| | Pingback by Andreas K. » Philip K Dick, “The Man in the High Castle” — put July 13, 2005 @ 4:39 am | | | PKD on The Man in the High Castle (among other things): “If You Find This World Bad, You Should See Some of the Others“ | | | 1 comment for GPod Audio Books: The Man in the High Castle By Philip K. Dick » |
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| | Home > Books Do Furnish a Room |
| | The biggest question I got out of the book was why the author even bothered to write it? | | | Okay Dick lovers, I was reviewing my reading inventory and although I had read a few Dick titles, I had not read The Man in the High Castle which is purported to be the author's magnum opus. | | | It's sort of like Bonfire of the Vanities in that a rich, successful professional man has a run-in with a down and out ne're-do-well and despite his escaping, the thugs later infiltrate his home (the British version of old money overlooking Central Park) and threaten his happy, rich, successful life and family. |
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| | The SF Site: Philip K. Dick Reading List |
| | The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike (1984) | | | There he stayed to write some 36 novels and 5 short story collections. | | | Set in small town America in the 1950's, the story follows the rift between Leo Runcible, the local Jewish realtor, and Walt Dombrosia, a graphic designer who suffers from low self-esteem after he loses his job. |
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| | The Drawing of the Dark Prabhupada, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Easy Journey to Other Planets Pratchett, Terry Men at Arms Sourcery Wyrd Sisters SMall Gods Soul Music Reaper Man Prescott, Dray Werewolves of Kregen Price, E. Hoffman Operation: Longlife Operation Misfit The Devil Wives of Li Fong Pronzini, Bill Creature! | | | The Disciples of Cthulhu NC Bester, Alfred The Demolished Man YECH The Stars my Destination Biggle, Lloyd Jr. |
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| | Philip K. Dick - The Man In The High Castle |
| | The Man In The High Castle - Cover 12 (Dutch) | | | The Man In The High Castle - Cover 11 (Dutch) | | | The Man In The High Castle - Cover 16 (Finnish) |
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| | Bibliography: The Man in the High Castle |
| | The Man in the High Castle (1962, SFBC, #618, $1.00, 239pp, hc) | | | The Man in the High Castle (1962, Putnam, $3.95, 239pp, hc) | | | The Man in the High Castle (1992, Random House/Vintage, 0679740678, $10.00, 259pp, tp) |
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| | IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection |
| | Other (non-critical) sites about The Man in the High Castle | | | Sites about The Man in the High Castle | | | Many of Dick's books (especially Flow My Tears, Eldritch and High Castle, all of which have just been reissued in paperback), remain as start-ling and original today as when they were first published. |
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http://www.ipl.org.ar/cgi-bin/ref/litcrit/litcrit.out.pl?ti=man-1
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| | A Possible MITHC Sequel? |
| | RFA was not Phil's first title for this book. | | | During the writing of it he referred to it as Valisystem A, and it was intended to be a sequel to The Man In The High Castle. | | | Radio Free Albemuth went unpublished during Phil's life because he couldn't bear to revise it along his agent's suggestions. |
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http://www.alphane.com/moon/PalmTree/sequel.htm
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| | Man in a High Castle Introduction |
| | Blade Runner is based on a novel of his called Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, so you’ve had some experience with his way of thinking. | | | He is imagining a world in which the second World War ended differently. | | | Man in a High Castle plays with fact and fiction, illusion and reality, past, present, and future, to examine the relationships between freedom and fate. |
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