The Man in the High Castle

Author: Philip K. Dick

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….Read More

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