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The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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What would happen if the course of American history had taken a different turn in the 1940s? This is now a suitable subject for the literary lions, as demonstrated by Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007) or Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America (2004). But a year before Chabon was born, Philip K. Dick earned his first Hugo award for hi…

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