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The Man in the High Castle

Philip K. Dick

Start date: July 1, 2020

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The alternate history presented in this book was interesting as was the exploration of the book within a book. Not all themes were well developed -- the possibility of travel between two alternate universes -- one where the Japanese won the war and one where they did not is an example. Even for 1962, some of the technology was not well researched because travel for short distances by rocket was not realistic, although faster airplanes were.

Philip Dick describes his characters sparingly and uses ...more

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