Folio Society Published Works Number 3205
Dick, Philip K - The Man in the High Castle
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Dick, Philip K - The Man in the High Castle (Published in by The Folio Society in 2015. Introduced by Ursula K. Le Guin. Illustrated by Shotopop. Winner of the 1963 Hugo award, Philip K. Dick's alternative history is a classic of modern science fiction, presented here with vivid illustrations by Shotopop. Three-quarter-bound in cloth with a Modigliani paper side, printed and blocked with a design by Shotopop. Set in Utopia with Market Street Neon. 272 pages. Frontispiece and 7 colour illustrations. Slipcase blocked with a design by Shotopop. 9" × 6.25". In 1962 Philip K. Dick conjured a new vision of our world – a twisted simulacrum in which the Axis Powers have won the Second World War. America is now divided: the eastern United States is the puppet of a maniacal German Reich, while the western Pacific seaboard is governed by a militaristic, yet spiritual, Japanese dictatorship. Amongst the complexities of this new existence, a group of unremarkable people – an American- Jewish craftsman, a judo instructor, a Japanese diplomat – play out their everyday lives, each striving to uncover a remnant of goodness in the shadow of a gathering evil. As their narratives intersect, Dick poses larger metaphysical questions concerning the authentication of history, perception and the building blocks of destiny. The Man in the High Castle is considered to be Dick's greatest novel, and was awarded the Hugo Award in 1963. With it, he jettisoned the traditional trappings of science fiction that had defined much of his previous work. Gone were the spaceships, strange worlds and telepaths; what remained were the ideas that had begun to set him apart as a significant thinker of the age. As Ursula K. Le Guin discusses in her new introduction, the text's innovation and skill took some of the first steps in dismantling the traditional barriers between science and mainstream fiction: it would become 'the first big, lasting contribution science fiction made to American literature'. )
