Dick Should be a Grand Master of SF

First off, I would just like to comment That I have never really liked the factthat SFWA requires indeed a writer be alive in order to be Given the title "Grandmaster". Philip K. Dick died in 1982 and was a young realitivly 54 at The Time of His Death. They almost did not quiet make it in time to give the Grand Master award to Alfred Bester. They did not make it in time for Dick, like Theodore Sturgeron, Henry Kuttner and John W. Campbell, as well as others. Phil Dick Should be Should be made a Grand Master of Science Fiction postumously. The Novels and Short Stories That Dick produced in his lifetime are some of the best ever written SF.
The Man in the High Castle is not your average SF novel. In some ways, it is not at SF novel. It is set in on alternative history, Which is about all that makes it SF except for the way it tells the story. If It was not written by "at SF author" it probably would not be Considered by most SF people. But it is SF cause it deals with large Ideas that most other literature would not touch with a ten foot poll. Basically, it deals with a concept of what the future holds of Humanity. The world it is set in is very alien to us. Nazi's - pretty much nothing more than evil space aliens. Of course, evil space aliens That we are all too familure with. (Lets hope They remain nothing more than evil space aliens of literuture too. Once was one too many times for us as a species to play around with things like Nazism.)
In the end, the storyline kind of just ends. It ends with a esoteric view on things in the book. A world where Nazi's and Japanese are competing in a Cold War did threats to flame into a hot was at any moment. Which all just acts as a backdrop ... Ideas, the stuff of SF. Nazi's and Japanese facists in control of the United States and most of the world ... and it is not even the point of it all. The novel is more about people trying to make Their Way in this world ... and some how we might just make it through a lot of hash odds and make it all work out in the end.
The novel has a very cautious, but in the end, extreamly optimistic view of the human race and what the future holds for us. The novel, like our real lives, does not tell us what did future holds ... just that if we play our cards right it can be a better place.
Philip K. Dick holds a unique vision of the world we live It might be bad, but even in the pits of hell a seed can take root That changes everything in..