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It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some twenty years earlier the United States lost a war -- and is now occupied by Nazi Germany and Japan.
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The Man in the High Castle is an Amazon TV show, based on the Philip K. Dick novel, about an "alternate present" (beginning in the 1960s) in which Germany and Japan won World War II, with the former Western US occupied by Japan, the former Eastern US occupied by Nazi Germany, and a small "neutral zone" between them. A theme of the story is that in this alternative world there is eager speculation, fueled by the illicit newsreel, The Grasshopper Lies...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Man in the High Castle with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick, a work of speculative fiction which imagines what the world would be like if the Allies had lost the Second World War. In this alternate history, America is occupied by Nazis and the Japanese, who have divided the continent between them...
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From Philip K. Dick, the Hugo Award–winning author of The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?—the basis for the film Blade Runner—Now Wait for Last Year is the novel of an Earth caught in an interstellar war and of an addictive hallucinogenic drug that causes time travel side effects.
Earth is trapped in the crossfire of an unwinnable war between two alien civilizations. Its leader...
Earth is trapped in the crossfire of an unwinnable war between two alien civilizations. Its leader...
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Interviews with the genius behind The Man in the High Castle and countless other science fiction classics.
In the field of science fiction, Philip K. Dick is unparalleled. His novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? became the classic film Blade Runner. His short story "The Minority Report" was adapted for the screen by Steven Spielberg. The Man in the High Castle has become a hit series on Amazon, and those titles represent only a small fraction...
6) Ubik
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The employees of an agency dedicated to blocking telepathic spying begin receiving messages from their supposedly dead boss, Glen Runciter, while reality seems to slip into the past.
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Masters of Despair analyzes one hundred years of dystopian fiction from: We, 1924; Brave New World, 1943; Darkness at Noon, 1932; Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1949; Fahrenheit 451, 1953; The Man in the High Castle, 1962, The Handmaid's Tale, 1986. The Road, 2006 and others.
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Counter-Clock World is a theological and philosophical adventure in a world set in reverse from the Hugo Award—winning science fiction novelist Philip K. Dick, author of The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep???-??the basis for the film Blade Runner.
Time has begun moving backward. People greet each other with "goodbye," blow smoke into cigarettes, and rise from the dead. When one of those rising dead is the famous and...
9) Valis
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VALIS is the first novel in a mesmerizing, science-fiction philosophical trilogy by Philip K. Dick, the Hugo Award—winning author of The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, the basis for the film Blade Runner.
"Dick is one of the ten best American writers of the twentieth century, which is saying a lot. Dick was a kind of Kafka steeped in LSD and rage."*
What is VALIS?
When a beam of pink light begins giving a schizophrenic...
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From Philip K. Dick, the Hugo Award—winning author of The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? the basis for the film Blade Runner Clans of the Alphane Moon explores the meaning of mental illness through the actions of people with clinical disorders and those of the doctors tasked with curing them.
For years, the third moon in the Alphane system was used as a psychiatric hospital. But when war broke out between Earth...
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Diana's letter" explores tranquility, weaving a serene tapestry up to certain ideas. It delves into history, an ever-flowing river without a fixed point in time but with a known destination, anchored by vivid depictions of an alternate realm revolving around Princess Diana. Although the concept at play may evoke reminiscences of Philip K. Dick's opus, "The Man in the High Castle", the 'letter' does not venture into such magnitude. It adheres to a...
13) Hope
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HOPE: Can the nation find it during the crisis? The fourth book in the Chandler Scott series.
Forces threaten to topple the first female President of the United States who faces opposition from secessionists and hostile forces in cyberspace and within her own government. Journalist Chandler Scott gets the call to undertake a covert mission to save her presidency and secure the country's future.
During his quest, he's forced to engage the Internet's...
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What if Robert E. Lee won the Battle of Gettysburg and his army went on to capture Philadelphia? What if the United States government was forced to recognize Confederate independence?
In this acclaimed work of alternative history, the wealthy and prosperous Confederacy is a superpower, locked into a bitter struggle with its European rival, the German Union. The United States, conversely, is utterly destitute, a sinkhole of lawlessness and corruption....
15) The Simulacra
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In a post-WWIII world, a matriarch maintains rule against a popular uprising in this sci-fi classic by the author of The Man in the High Castle.
On a ravaged Earth, fate and circumstances bring together a disparate group of characters, including an android president, a First Lady who calls all the shots, fascist with dreams of a coup, a composer who plays his instrument with his mind, and the world's last practicing therapist. And, they all must contend...
16) Rebellium
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In a fast paced thriller, Chandler Scott continues his quest for the dream story. What will it cost him? His career, his love, his life?Continuing his dangerous investigations, he discovers plots more sinister than even he could ever imagine. As he plunges into the world of secessionists and government run wild, he soon realizes that his life hangs in the balance. He must decide whom he can trust-his documentary partner with a dark past or the people...
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ESPERANZA: ¿Puede la nación encontrarla durante la crisis? El cuarto libro de la serie de Chandler Scott.
Las fuerzas amenazan con derrocar a la primera mujer presidenta de los Estados Unidos que enfrenta la oposición de fuerzas secesionistas y hostiles en el ciberespacio y dentro de su propio gobierno. El periodista Chandler Scott recibe el llamado para emprender una misión encubierta para salvar su presidencia y asegurar...
18) Empire of lies
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"Istanbul, 1683: Mehmed IV, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, is preparing to lay siege to Vienna, capital of the Holy Roman Empire, when a mysterious visitor arrives in his bedroom--naked, covered in strange tattoos--to deliver a dangerous, world-changing message. Paris, 2017: Ottoman flags have been flying over the great city for three hundred years, ever since its fall--along with all of Europe--to the empire's all-conquering army. Notre Dame has been...
19) Interregnum
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Interregnum is a triple-decker alternative history, thriller, and literary cryptogram.Think The Name of the Rose, SS-GB, The Man in The High Castle and The Crown rolled into one read.1946. Britain is occupied by Nazi Germany. All seems lost-until the February Rising sees off Hitler. The Fuhrer's death triggers a struggle for power among the Nazis, revolt across the Occupied Continent, and schism in the Oval Office in Washington. Caught in this maelstrom...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick, which follows the bounty hunter Rick Deckard on his quest to "retire" androids in an imagined post-apocalyptic version of San Francisco. The androids, who are treated as subhuman but are indistinguishable from humans...