A dazzling speculative novel of 'counterfactual history' from one of America's most highly-regarded science fiction authors, Philip K. '
The most brilliant science fiction mind on any planet'
Rolling Stone '
Dick's finest book, and one of the very best science fiction novels ever published'
Eric Brown.
If you enjoyed The Man in the High Castle, you might like Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, also available in Penguin Classics.
His best works are generally agreed to be The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, the inspiration for the movie Blade Runner.
His career as a science fiction writer comprised an early burst of short stories followed by a stream of novels, typically character studies incorporating androids, drugs, and hallucinations.
Does 'reality' lie with him, or is his world just one among many others? Philip Kindred Dick (1928-82) was born in Chicago in 1928.
His book offers a new vision of reality - an alternative theory of world history in which the Axis powers were defeated - giving hope to the disenchanted.
In a neutral buffer zone in America that divides the world's new rival superpowers, lives the author of an underground bestseller.
In this nightmare dystopia the Nazis have taken over New York, the Japanese control California and the African continent is virtually wiped out.
Dick's acclaimed cult novel gives us a horrifying glimpse of an alternative world - one where the Allies have lost the Second World War.
Philip K.
Dick's The Man in the High Castle includes an introduction by Eric Brown in Penguin Modern Classics.
A dazzling speculative novel of 'counterfactual history' from one of America's most highly-regarded science fiction authors, Philip K
