Philip K. Dick is a master of unconventional sci-fi and fantasy genre, and Those qualities are CLEARLY Exhibited in this work. It is set in 1960s America in a World in Which Germany and Japan have won the World War II. US and the rest of the world are divided between Those two superpowers, and we follow lives of several ordinary Americans who try to adjust Themselves to this reality. The characters in the novel are fully developed in a manner That We've Come to Expect from Dick's later novels. Their personal struggles are intertwined with the new geopolitical power plays. The title of the novel Refers to the sobriquet for Hawthorne Abendsen, a fictional writer of the book "The Grasshopper Lies Heavy" which forms a story-within-a-story and a sort of MacGuffin for this novel. This fictional book so will be at the center of the denouement of this novel, and May Provide the clue for what this novel what all about.
The Man in the High Castle is another brilliant and thought provoking novel. It is an engrossing and fun read as well, and a true classic of science fiction.
