Man in the High Castle

Summary: "Perhaps the strangest--and the best--World War II rethinking was 'The Man in the High Castle', by Philip K. Dick, in which a defeated America is ruled east of the Mississippi by Germany and west by Japan, and the theme is the necessity and impossibility of indigenous art among a defeated people. The title character, by the way, never appears; he lives in the castle high over Malibu, where he is said to be writing a ...novel in which America won World War II--we are all characters in his book!" [read more]