One of the best books of Dick, who received the Hugo Award in 1962, and the least that can be said is that even today he kept all his eloquence. From the point of view that Germany, Italy and Japan wins the war, Dick just can not imagine another reality; but over the descriptions, the question, terrible and haunting, looming, when we learn that in this world, a writer has written a book describing forbid the Allied victory ... and questioning the figures go hand in hand with the readers; Nazi and Japanese empire is it to dispute what could have been an American empire or English? While subtle, with red string described a antique shop carefully, plunges us into a time slip, metaphysics and politics. The use of the Chinese I Ching and strange stones give a unique spiritual dimension for a book that is both poetic and sulfur, and uncompromising.
