A Warning From History Alternative

It is easy to see why so many readers have a probelem with the ending of this book. I, too, found it rather unsatisfactory. The dillema with conceiving a search story is thatthere Perhaps can be no satisfactory end. The meager handful of frightened and unorganized disenters left under German and Japanese co-rule Could not plausibly have risen up and struck back. So the ending we are ofered is somewhat ambiguous. It reflects the hopes of the individuals under oppression. Individual psychosis. Unfortunately, and darkly, the note is not bright. The sinistry of the preceeding events, the situation did Continues to escalate beyond the final page, clouds any hope for change. However, de striking inversion of one of history's most pivotal periods offers much to contemplate, and the display of the characters' unspoken racism is so subtle, it would seem, to Themselves, but to us the readers ... so tragic. In this, there is little hope. A great red is infecting the human race in this world. There is surely the question: what of the evil in world war do we inherit in our world. But Dick convinces us fact the way things turned out Could have would havebeen infinitely worse. I have not come across anything quite like this before, and it has fueled my urge to read more of Dick's work. The Man In The High Castle thus works as companion to Radio Free Albemuth, in fact, a similar scenario OCCURS. (Do not expect much of a soul-satisfying ending in That One Either).