America, fifteen years after the end of the Second World War. The winning Axis powers have divided their spoils: the Nazis control New York, while California is ruled by the Japanese. But between these two states - locked in a cold war - lies a neutal buffer zone in which legendary author Hawthorne Abendsen is rumoured to live. Abendsen lives in fear of his life for he has writ...
America, fifteen years after the end of the Second World War. The winning Axis powers have divided their spoils: the Nazis control New York, while California is ruled by the Japanese. But between these two states - locked in a cold war - lies a neutal buffer zone in which legendary author Hawthorne Abendsen is rumoured to live. Abendsen lives in fear of his life for he has written a book in which World War Two was won by the Allies. . .
作者简介
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Philip Kindred Dick (1928-82) was born in Chicago, but lived most of his life in California. His career as a science fiction writer comprised an early burst of short stories followed by a stream of novels, typically incorporating androids, drugs, and hallucinations. His most famous books include The Man in the High Castle, A Scanner Darkly and Do Androids Dream of Electric Shee...
Philip Kindred Dick (1928-82) was born in Chicago, but lived most of his life in California. His career as a science fiction writer comprised an early burst of short stories followed by a stream of novels, typically incorporating androids, drugs, and hallucinations. His most famous books include The Man in the High Castle, A Scanner Darkly and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, the inspiration for the movie Blade Runner.
The story seems to have lost itself gradually in endless details - not that details are unworthy of depiction, but to what end? Although a grand retelling of the history with great magnitude, it is no...The story seems to have lost itself gradually in endless details - not that details are unworthy of depiction, but to what end? Although a grand retelling of the history with great magnitude, it is nonetheless wasted on a sequence of insipid events that may well happen in any other era. (展开)
花了一个多星期,看完了The Man in the High Castle(TMITHC)。这是阅读的第三部PKD小说,愈发开始熟悉PKD的风格。PKD的风格十分显著,感觉自己始终在读一本小说,不同的只是由故事情节所呈现的外表,内核总是一样的。 这次的书评没有系统的结构,只能以碎片化的方式记录下自...
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一 1962年,美国首次载人宇航飞行,肯尼迪宣布美国在60年代末将宇航员送上月球。 同年,PKD菲利普·迪克的小说《高城堡里的人 The Man in the High Castle》出版。在书里,美国输掉了二战,被日德瓜分。 太空梦想,则被德国元首希特勒继承。 二 在《高城堡里的人》这本书里,P...
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0 有用 mirai 2023-02-12 23:40:18 新加坡
中途都快放弃了,庆幸读完了。无论真相在哪里,我们始终都在轮回中受苦。
0 有用 林文清 2020-06-06 02:03:24
The story seems to have lost itself gradually in endless details - not that details are unworthy of depiction, but to what end? Although a grand retelling of the history with great magnitude, it is no... The story seems to have lost itself gradually in endless details - not that details are unworthy of depiction, but to what end? Although a grand retelling of the history with great magnitude, it is nonetheless wasted on a sequence of insipid events that may well happen in any other era. (展开)
0 有用 含混口器 2022-03-02 00:42:12
补标。How dissimilar, really, is this world we imagine as Other to our own?
0 有用 出前七丁 2020-05-06 12:29:13
中间发生的故事不是很理解在表达什么,但结尾给人的感受很奇妙,引用网上看到的描述就是“it breaks the forth wall” and “the characters become aware of the reader”,是一个越想越有意思的twist