About this episode

The episode discusses Philip K. Dick's alternate history novel 'The Man in the High Castle' and its themes.

An alternate history where everyone makes decisions using an ancient Chinese fortune telling book instead of ChatGPT. CW: This is a book about the Nazis winning World War 2. So we talk about that sort of stuff. I’m sure you know the sort of stuff we’re talking about. The Man in the High Castle By Philip K. Dick Published in 1962, by Putnam Spoilers The Man in the High Castle Links: Summary of the whole book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_High_Castle About Philip K. Dick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick Thanks for Listening! If you liked the show, please leave us a review! And if you want to contact us, shoot us an email at hardcoverhooligans@gmail.com . And don’t forget to follow us on Instagram and Tiktok if you’re into that sort of thing.

People in this episode

Host: Hardcover Hooligans

Topics covered

• alternate history
• fortune telling
• Nazis
• World War 2
• Philip K. Dick
• literature
• book discussion

Keywords

• The Man in the High Castle
• Philip K. Dick
• alternate history
• Nazis
• fortune telling
• book discussion
• literature

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Putnam, Wikipedia

Books & works: The Man in the High Castle

Places: World War 2

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