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32. As I Lay Dying
33. Absalom, Absalom!
34. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
35. Fahrenheit 451 (re-read)
36. The Man in the High Castle
37. Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
38. Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
39. Pale Fire
40. JR
41. The S ... I read The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick and The Kragen by Jack Vance, both of which were very good. --Science fiction
1. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
2. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
3. Time and Again by Jack Finney
4. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
5. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
6. Perdido Street Station by Ch ... The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
Enlightened Office Politics: Understanding, Coping with and Winning the Game - Without Losing Your Soul by Michae ... On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin
Pyramids by Terry Pratchett
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins
Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years by Sue Townsend ... read 11/13/2009)
The Birth of Venus: A Novel by Sarah Dunant (added 11/25/2009, read 11/24/2009)
Alternate history
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (added 11/25/2009, read 11/16/2009)
The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson (added 11/25/2009, read 11/19/2009)
... ... books I managed to read in November.
46. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (added 11/25/2009, read 11/13/2009)
47. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (added 11/25/2009, read 11/16/2009)
48. The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson (added 11/25/2009, read 11/19/200 ... The Man in the High Castle
by Philip K. Dick ... nnegut
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress: Heinlein
The Lost World: Conan Doyle NOT Crichton
Neuromancer: William Gibson
The Man in the High Castle: PKD ... than I like it; I can also see a lot of future undergrads getting cold sweats over having to compare and contrast it with Man in the High Castle. ... if they contain science fiction elements. Otherwise they're just fiction.
This has put me in a mood to re-read Dick's Man in the High Castle though. I always thought it was one of his very best. ... - perhaps the southern cause is working on the A-bomb or something, I dunno. But I guess perhaps it stems from stuff like The Man In The High Castle by Dick in past years being accepted into it. Perhaps the publishers and librarians think scifi fans would be more interested in it then general ... ... Orange – Anthony Burgess
(7) Animal Farm – George Orwell
(8) Jennifer Government – Max Barry
(9) The Man in the High Castle – Phillip K. Dick
(10) Herland – Charlotte Perkins Gillman
(11) Genesis - Bernard Beckett
... read the first two parts, still waiting on Amazon to deliver the final volume, but I know I'll love it
Love Medicine
The Man in the High Castle
Ulysses
The Great Gatsby - someone just mentioned this on the radio and I thought gosh how did I forget that?
Lots more I could mention - ... The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick - read in 1996 or thereabouts ... Damn, now I wish I hadn't given those books away.
I liked everything of Dick I read so far--the Valis trilogy, and The man in high castle. The Valis books especially were such a strange, thrilling experience, I'm afraid to reread them. ... is as controversial as ever.
I have been killing time this week with my reading, waiting to start M&M. I read:
The Man in the High Castle my first foray into SF for about 25 years. I read some A.E.Van Vogt, and the ubiquitous Dune saga in my teens, but have not read any SF since. ... I'm reading The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick. ... for starburst which is a collection of stories written from the same time as 'star' and 'demolished'.
I'd like to read the man in the high castle next though, after reading a fall of moondust and discovering it was shortlisted but didn't win the hugo award for that year I decided I had to ... ... the progression. Asimov needed an editor desperately, but the first three Foundation books are important. I would read The Man in the High Castle as an example of alternate history, and Woman on the Edge of Time as an example (beyond LeGuin) of feminist SF. ... regarded, it was nominated for a Hugo Award for best sci-fi novel in 1963 being beaten by Philip K Dick's book 'The Man in The High Castle'; one of his I have yet to read ... it must be good to have beaten this!
It's a hard sci-fi book, that is it is puts an emphasis on technical ... 9. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick ... too, like "pleasant_surprise", etc. And I don't like spaces in tags, I know, I know.) Let's see what those yield...
* Man in the High Castle by PKD (Can I say "overhyped"? I think he wrote some egregiously bad novels, some of which will be listed below, this one is simply disappointing...)
... #21 The Man in the High Castle
I love this book. So many different layers of reality. The metafiction of a story within a story is extremely compelling. It's very easy to see why this book won the Hugo Award. Reflections on the nature of reality, and the meaning of suffering.
... - and memorable - Big Dumb Objects at centre stage and I think they'll be judged for those and not the prose or story.
The Man in the High Castle may well be a better novel than A Scanner Darkly, but it's been decades since I read it. Still, A Scanner Darkly is bloody good and, unlike ... ... of Light
Foreigner
Starship Troopers
Forever War
Dune
Neuromancer
Excession
Rendezvous with Rama
Man in the High Castle
Startide Rising
I might have different opinions tomorrow. ... and hardbacks $2., 2nd day $1 and then Saturday a grocery bag of books for $5.00.
My best was the 1st ed. of The Man in the High Castle one yr and then the 1st SF book club edition of the same the following. The source(s) of old, classic SF books has been drying up over the last ... ... for new readers, at least one out of every hundred new readers must have a real interest in math.
Also another vote for Man in the High Castle, assuming we're not excluding alternate history. That book was one of the first alternate histories that I recall reading and it lead me to read ... ... h
Fahrenheit 451
Tiger! Tiger! (aka The Stars My Destination)
Serpent's Reach
Old Man's War
The Forever War
The Man in the High Castle
Stand on Zanzibar
Lord of Light
oh and then there was that one... what was it called?
could trade either a straight first or a SF book club first of the man in the high castle for a SF/Fantasy author i like more. Neither has a dust jacket which if one cares about value lowers the worth significantly. This IS my favorite Dick, but i'm just not that wild about his books. >67: charbutton
I'm not saying you shouldn't do The Man in the High Castle...just that you should make it clear that this is a small sub-genre of speculative fiction.
As for other possibilities, there are a couple of concepts that usually get argument going:
Gender Roles
The Ha ... >65: The Man in the High Castle is usually found in the SF section of the bookstore simply because that's where all speculative stuff goes. However, it's probably a misleading introduction to SF since it's really an Alternate History book rather than mainstream SF. ... will have to be a personal, rather than group experience! I would like to introduce some sci-fi though. I had thought about The Man in the High Castle (is that classed as SF?). Or The Drowned World by J G Ballard, although I have to say that I don't think I quite understood this book. ... I read almost no science fiction for years, but a friend recommended Confessions of a Crap Artist and I followed it with The Man in the High Castle. LT led me to War with the Newts, possibly the best book I read last year. Perhaps there's fantasy out there as good as these examples of ... ... Man's War by John Scalzi
Fire Watch by Connie Willis
Babel 17 by Samuel Delany
Martian Time Slip by Phil Dick
The Man in the High Castle by Phil Dick
Good News from Outer Space by John Kessel
Lord Valentine's castle by Bob Silverberg
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
We by Yevgeny ... ... Varley
334 by Thomas M. Disch
On the beach by Nevil Shute
The book of skulls by Robert Silverberg
The man in the high castle by Philip K. Dick
Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
The Stand by Stephen King
By that definition The Man in the High Castle wouldn't be SF. Shurely some mistake here?
With regards to the definition of SF, I'm holding out for a mathematical one. I have a hunch it will involve the Riemann zeta function. ... Heaven was my second by Ursula Le Guin, after Lavinia (which I liked very much indeed), and while it reminded me of The Man in the High Castle for some very odd reason, I did like it and will have to find another of her books to try out. Any suggestions?
Apparently I never marked that I ... #7 -- The Man in the High Castle -- I know I was supposed to finish this book and be awestruck at how wonderful it is, but I'm not. The premise of what the world would be like if Japan and Germany had won World War II was what got me intrigued enough to read this story.... unfortunately it just ... The Man in the High Castle -- I know I was supposed to finish this book and be awestruck at how wonderful it is, but I'm not. The premise of what the world would be like if Japan and Germany had won World War II was what got me intrigued enough to read this story.... unfortunately it just seems ... ... le:
Fatherland by Robert Harris
Swastika Night by Katharine Burdekin
Best alternative history, Axis-won style:
The Man in the High Castle by PKD
See, I told you so by Rush Limbaugh ;) 2. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
Excellent book set in a alternative 1962 in which Germany and Japan had won WWII. I found it to be surprising hopeful given it dystopian premise. Hugo winner. Definitely worth a reread.
3. Bellwether by Connie Willis
A fun book about ... I am reading The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick, and it is quite interesting so far.
I am also listening to Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers.
And now I am going to turn off this infernal machine and go read. ... Time itself being the "science" element. From my meagre experience, there's at least one famous precedent in Dick's The Man in the high castle. Orwell's "1984" is sometimes classified as sf too.
Anyway, to me that angle's unimportant.
So, I finished the book, and very sickening it ... ... Detection
6. Alternative History
a. Yiddish Policemen's Union
b. The Man in the High Castle
c. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
d. Alternate Presidents
e. How Few Remain
f. Guns of the South
g. ... needs. She is a complex and interesting character to read about and it is a thoroughly enjoyable book.
Abandonded book:
Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
I was reading this for the book group I joined recently and...well, I probably never would have picked it up if I'd known what ... ... the book and never felt the author was dumbing down the material as seems so common in popular science works.
56) The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (print book)
This is an early take on the always popular what if the Axis powers won World War II trope. Dick carefully ... ... is always assumed to be identical to ours in real life.
Besides Alternate history has been in the genre since before The Man in the High Castle in 1962 The Man in the High Castle
World War Z
A Canticle for Liebowitz
The Years of Rice and Salt
... to say that the difference being is that once an Alternate History changes the past, it really isn't historical anymore. The Man In the High Castle by Philip K. Dick is a good one. Another more popular right now is the Dies the Fire trilogy by S.M. Stirling, which I've enjoyed. The ... ... myself in for the whole month of December. Which is not out of the question...
Forgot a couple in the last post:
67. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
68. Just a Geek by Wil Wheaton
Today left to new homes......
The Man in the High Castle
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
Both within the UK well..l have both the book club and publisher's first editions of the man in the high castle - sans dust jackets, but still. Only signed book iirc is a late edition of A wrinkle in time. Man in the High Castle **
by Philip K. Dick
09/28/08
Up from Slavery
by Booker T. Washington
09/29/08
The Comfort of Strangers ***½
by Ian McEwan
09/30/08
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (#245) ***½
by Tom Stoppard
09/30/08
†The Sound and the Fury ****½
by W ... OC: Wonder Boys, Le Père Goriot, The Comfort of Strangers, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead EX: Man in the High Castle, Up from Slavery, The Sound and the Fury ... parallèles, même si des mentions peuvent être faites à "notre" monde souvent indirectement, comme par exemple dans Le maître du haut château) et les récits uchroniques dans lesquels il y a une notion de mondes parallèles, dont un au moins est bien sûr uchronique par rapport au ... Bonjour Grimm,
Et merci de nous rejoindre ! C'est bizarre pour moi c'est l'inverse ! :-D j'ai adoré le maître du haut château et pas tellement la brèche. Dans les uchronies les plus connues ou les plus trouvables :-D, tu as Fatherland, un incontournable. Sinon j'ai beaucoup aimé chron ... ... laisser tous seuls d'autant plus que j'aime beaucoup le genre.
Enfin, je dis ça mais je n'ai lu que la brèche et le maitre du haut chateau, qui soient "vraiment" dans le style.
J'ai bien aimé la brèche, même si Christophe Lambert vise plutôt les adolescents.
Par contre, je ... ... imagination, an empathy for characters and an insight into the human condition. I felt this book was much better than The Man in the High Castle the first book of his I read. In the two volumes from Library of America I have seven more of his books to read and they are moving to the top ... ... – Jay Lake
21) Nine Princes in Amber – Roger Zelazny
22) Islandia – Austin Tappan Wright
23) The Man in the High Castle – Philip K. Dick
24) The Merchant Princes – Charles Stross (another series)
25) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas A ... ... Delany
Nova – Samuel R. Delany
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
Ubik – Philip K. Dick
The Man in the High Castle – Philip K. Dick
Forever War – Joe Haldeman
Fallen Dragon – Peter F. Hamilton
Stainless Steel Rat - Harry Harrison
Dune - Frank ... ...
Brian W. Aldiss - Hothouse
J.G. Ballard - The Drowned World
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
Philip K. Dick - The Man in the High Castle
Robert Sheckley - Journey Beyond Tomorrow
Clifford D. Simak - Way Station
Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle
Brian W. Aldiss - Greybeard
Wi ... ... continue reissuing the SF Masterworks they originally published in hardback (lacking the pbk rights) as 'cased' editions. The Man in the High Castle (#72, July), Childhood's End (#73, August), and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (#74, December) are all teed up thus far. I hope A Canticle for ... ... books through this group so I hope it gets busy again. Special thanks for introducing me to Christopher Priest and The Man in the High Castle. ... New Age! - Oe
The Woman in the Dunes - Abe
New Grub Street - Gissing
The Return - Joseph Conrad
The Man in the High Castle - Dick
The Napoleon of Notting Hill - Chesterton 1. Dhalgren
2. The Left Hand of Darkness
3. George R.R. Martin}'s Song of Ice and Fire series
4. The Man in the High Castle by Dick
5. The Female Man by Russ ... Orange by Anthony Burgess ****½
3. The Road by Cormac McCarthy ***
4. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro ***
5. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick **
6. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells **
7. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick ***
8. Fahrenheit 451 ... The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick ... colleagues. He has a real bug up his behind about Robert Silverberg for example.
Ubik is probably my favorite. I like MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE .
Not a fan of A SCANNER DARKLY.It's barely a SF novel, and in that regard I don't think it's as good a drug novel as Drugstore Cowboy or Panic ... Ardashir #9 mentions Fatherland. Another book on the "Germans won the war" theme is The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick which is set in the United States. Germany controls an Eastern zone and there is a Japanese zone in California. A sort of neutral zone in between. It briefly inspired me ... ... F_A_V_O_R_I_T_E book is Galatic Pot Healer!!!!
I also really like Ubik, Do Andriods Dream of Electric Sheep, The Man in the High Castle,actually there isn't much he wrote that I don't like. I don't believe Philip K. Dick's brilliant The Man in the High Castle is on the list, but if you're into alternate history, it's a can't-miss (and also relates to the post-WWII period). I've read quite a few of PKD's novels - Solar Lottery, The Man Who Japed, The Man in the High Castle, Martian Time-slip, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Ubik, Valis, Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said, A Maze of Death. Also some short story collections - The Little Black Box ... ... Alternate History book. Priest shows you how WWII went in Britain and then he shows you an alternate WWII. I also liked The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick. ... bad (VULCAN'S HAMMER and LIES, INC.) he is positively atrocious.
And, to tell the absolute truth, I have to reread THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, Phil's only Hugo-winner (he once used the award to break up a fight on his front yard, leaving the silver rocket with a permanent list). When I ... ... buried in the trunk. Reviewers were not especially enthusiastic.
For novels to try, the Library of America volume has The Man in the High Castle, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, and Ubik. I'd say try one of those - not necessarily in the ... The real difference between the Chabon and The Man in the High Castle or Weapons of Choice is FOCUS. The focus in The Yiddish Policeman's Union is the noir, the murder, and the personal relationships. As far as I could see there was no particular reason to set it in Alaska. Why not Poland? ... ... Union is alternate history, which makes it sf according to majority of sf readers. If it isn't sf, then neither is The Man in the High Castle, Aztec Century or Weapons of Choice, among countless others. What about alternate history? Robert Harris' Fatherland, or Philip K Dick's The Man in the High Castle, or Christopher Evans' Aztec Century?
In fact, what about space opera? There's very little in that which is postulated from the ramifications of technological change... The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick For parallel histories, The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick is pretty good. I also liked The Yiddish Policemen's Union. For time travel, I certainly enjoyed The Domesday Book, which jumps back and forth between the medieval plague and a frightening modern day epidemic, while ... ... :
Alvin Journeyman and series by Orson Scott Card
Making History by Stephen Fry
Shadow of Albion by Andre Norton
Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick
The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
The Eyre Affair and series by Jasper Fforde
Islandia by Austin Ta ... The Rings of Saturn, by WG Sebald
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
The Go-Between by LP Hartley
... Dick was a jewelry maker, jewelry makers and craft artisans often make appearances in Phillip Dick's books. There's one in The Man in the High Castle.
James Blish's short story A Work of Art concerns itself with a composer, although composing music is not the only art form the title ... And don't forget Philip K. Dick Man in the High Castle....a classic. ... that was what science fiction was I wanted no part of it.
Second exposure was in my early twenties--Ender's Game and The Man in the High Castle. I fell in love with the genre and read nothing but for about six years.
I've never tried any Heinlein again though. ... r
The Stand by Stephen King
Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
La Bete Humaine by Emile Zola
The man in the high castle by Philip K. Dick
Music for Torching by A.M. Homes
Lights out in the Reptile House by Jim Shepard
A canticle for Leibowitz ... ... by Philip K. Dick. The easiest ones to use for your purposes would be Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and The Man in the High Castle.
If you're going to include short stories, you need to cover Harlan Ellison; he's only written two or three novels over the course of his ... ... "Dick K. Philip" and leads to an empty author page) ... there are a lot of good choices, but I'd particularly suggest:
The man in the high castle
Ubik
The three stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Valis
A scanner darkly
Do androids dream of electric sheep ("Bladerunner") Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
The Man in the High Castle This wasn't at all what I was expecting but I'm glad I read it because now I know what all the fuss was about.
One Year Off: leaving it all behind for a round-the-world journey with our children One day I'll stop ... ... more 'alternative history' stuff along the lines of Turtledove. Off the top of my head, examples of this include:
The Man in the High Castle by Phillip K. Dick (Hitler wins)
Resurrection Day by Brendan DuBois (Cuban missile crisis turns into nuclear war)
Weapons of Choice and ... ... been able to dredge up include:
Heinlein: Have Space Suit – Will Travel
Bradbury: Martian Chronicles
PK Dick: The Man in the High Castle
Vonnegut: Sirens of Titan
Asimov: Foundation Trilogy
Van Vogt: The Voyage of the Space Beagle
Something by Theodore Sturgeon, ... ... of awards are sometimes not the best steer but looking at shortlists is often better.
For Dick we would then have The Man In The High Castle which won a Hugo as you say. Dr Bloodmoney, The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep, Flow My Tears, ... ... Richard Dawkins
Guns, Germs and Steel : A Short History of Everbody for the Last 13000 Years by Jared Diamond
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
Bleak House (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
Moonfleet by John Meade Falkner
Neverwhere by Neil Gaim ... ... novels. It's entitled "Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 60's" and will contain Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, The Man in the High Castle, Ubik, and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.
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As far as I can tell, this is the first ... ... This was the first novel of his that I read, and I liked the setup of a country with borders within...similar to The Man in the High Castle.
And yes, everyone must read lighter fare on a regualr basis - it is what keeps some of us sane in this world! ... everybody talks about Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and virtually none of PKD's other novels (though I did see The Man in the High Castle) on there). He wrote like 30 books, people, and I don't really think Dadoes was the best. It's just the one that happened to have a good film ... ... cop-out straight away and just track what I read in 2007.
So far:
1. The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed by John McPhee
2. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
3. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
4. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
5. The Day of the Jackal by ... ... book, so the history it describes is very detailed, but it's not what I'd call a page turner.
Some classics of AH are The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (set in America after an Axis victory in WW2), Bring the Jubilee by Ward Moore (set in the United States after a Southern ... ... In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories, which I am, as I'd hoped, enjoying vastly more, this rainy morning, than I did The Castle. I'm still awaiting Hrabal's I Served the King of England, which is terribly slow to ship; then it's onward, at last. I've enjoyed the Czechs, though (Ger ... The man in the high castle by Philip K. Dick. ... he is a bit over-represented on the second list ... I would have left it at Do androids dream of electric sheep? and mayb Man in the high castle ... I think he is more influential for his approach/themes than specific books. I've finished the first of my "travel reads" for this week (The Man in the High Castle, Specimen Days and Siddhartha), and now I'm on to The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. I read about 50 pages in the middle of the night (jet-lag gives me all kinds of odd hours in which to ... ...
I've been picking out books for a 9-day work trip (and 13 hour flight each way), so my list for the next while is:
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
I think I might need one or two more, but ... Not sure if it's the sort of thing you are looking for but The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick is a 'What if the Allies lost WWII' book. The story itself and the characters are a bit quirky. Definitely not a war novel. Takes place in a US that is half German occupied territory and half ... ... understand anyone actually reading Celine and not liking him - I'm currently re-reading North and will move on to Castle to Castle next.
Chacun a son gout I guess
BTW gotta laugh at the touchstone selections
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