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If you're looking for a great, alternate history positing that the Axis powers won WWII...this isn't it. The plot is way too scattershot and has too many characters for such a short novel. There's also too little world building for my taste; I feel like Dick focuses on the minutiae that isn't very interesting and not the larger concepts of this New World Order that would truly make this compelling.
As I've said many times before, I feel like Dick was a master of the premise, but frequently faile ...more
As I've said many times before, I feel like Dick was a master of the premise, but frequently faile ...more
Frank Frink fka Frank Fink is a metallurgist/jeweler living in post-War San Francisco in an alternate reality where we good guys lost WWII, the Pacific States is a separate nation under Japanese control, and Frink/Fink is in danger as he is secretly Jewish, so his status may depend on the dicey relationship of the Japs and the Nazis who occupy the Eastern half of what was the good old U.S.A.
Lots of interesting things happen. Frink's old firm is in danger of exposure for producing fake Americana ...more
Lots of interesting things happen. Frink's old firm is in danger of exposure for producing fake Americana ...more
May 03, 2017
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I know this is a seminal work of fiction, but it was perhaps a little too obscure for me? The reimagining of a world after the Germans and Japanese won the Second World War was really interesting, but this book would require several readings to really work out the hidden points in the story.
An interesting alternative history - set in the US, but after a very different WWII.
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