DC Fans Need to Watch This Four Season Prime Video Sci Fi Series ASAP 10 Best Alternate History TV Shows, Ranked The Man in the High Castle How to write time loops and parallel universes for film and TV Envato Top Alternate History TV Shows To Explore Different Realities The Man in the High Castle (TV Series) (2015) FilmAffinity. An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here (2007 Modern Classics edition) and here (2001 Modern Classics edition). A dazzling speculative novel of 'counterfactual history' from one of America's most highly regarded science fiction authors, Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle includes an introduction by Eric Brown in Penguin Modern Classics. Philip K. Dick's acclaimed cult novel gives us a horrifying glimpse of an alternative world one where the Allies have lost the Second World War. In this nightmare dystopia the Nazis have taken over New York, the Japanese control California and the African continent is virtually wiped out. In a neutral buffer zone in America that divides the world's new rival superpowers, lives the author of an underground bestseller. 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. 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 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. 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.