The Man in the High Castle - wikipedia The Man in the High Castle This article is about the novel. For the 2015 TV adaptation, see The Man in the High Castle ( TV series ). The Man in the High Castle Cover of first edition ( hardcover ) Author Philip K. Dick Country United States Language English Genre Alternate history Publisher Putnam Publication date October 1962 Media type Print ( Hardcover & Paperback ) Pages 240 OCLC 145507009 Dewey Decimal 813.54 The Man in the High Castle ( 1962 ) is an alternate history novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. Set in 1962, fifteen years after an alternative ending to World War II, the novel concerns intrigues between the victorious Axis Powers -- primarily, Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany -- as they rule over the former United States, as well as daily life under the resulting totalitarian rule. The Man in the High Castle won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1963. Beginning in 2015, the book was adapted as a multi-season TV series, with Dick 's daughter, Isa Dick Hackett, serving as one of the show 's producers. Reported inspirations include Ward Moore 's alternate Civil War history, Bring the Jubilee ( 1953 ), various classic World War II histories, and the I Ching ( referred to in the novel ). The novel features a `` novel within the novel '' comprising an alternate history within this alternate history wherein the Allies defeat the Axis ( though in a manner distinct from the actual historical outcome ). Contents 1 Synopsis 1.1 Background 1.2 Plot summary 2 The Grasshopper Lies Heavy 3 Inspirations 4 Reception 5 Adaptations 5.1 Audiobook 5.2 Television 6 Incomplete sequel 7 See also 8 References 9 Further reading 10 External links Synopsis Fictional map of the world after the Axis victory Briefly, The Man in the High Castle is a `` fictional picture of a world divided by Germany and Japan, victors of the second World War ''. Background In the novel 's alternate history, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was assassinated by Giuseppe Zangara in 1934 leading to the continuation of the Great Depression and U.S. isolationism during the opening of World War II. Adolf Hitler led Nazi Germany to conquer most of Europe and the Soviet Union, murdering Jews, Roma, Slavs, and other groups. Meanwhile, Imperial Japan occupied China, before taking control of India and Oceania. The Nazis then helped Italy conquer most of Africa. As Japan invaded the U.S. West Coast, Germany invaded the U.S. East Coast and most of South America. By 1947, the U.S. and the remaining Allies surrendered to the Axis, ending the war. By the 1960s, Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany are the world 's competing superpowers, with Japan establishing the `` Pacific States of America '' ( P.S.A. ) from the former Western United States, with the remaining Rocky Mountain States now a neutral buffer zone between the P.S.A. and the Nazi - occupied former Eastern United States. For unknown reasons, Canada remains independent. Hitler, though still alive, is incapacitated from advanced syphilis, and Martin Bormann has become Chancellor of Germany, with Goebbels, Heydrich, Göring, Seyss - Inquart ( who oversees the extermination of the peoples of Africa ), and other Nazi leaders soon vying to take his place. The Nazis have drained the Mediterranean to make room for farmland, developed and used the hydrogen bomb, and designed rockets for extremely fast travel across the world as well as space, having colonized the Moon, Venus, and Mars. The novel is set mostly in San Francisco in the P.S.A. ; here, Chinese residents first appear in the novel as second - class citizens and black people as slaves. The secondary setting of the novel is the Rocky Mountains States, namely the cities of Cañon City, Denver and Cheyenne. Plot summary In 1962, fifteen years after Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany have won World War II, Robert `` Bob '' Childan owns an Americana antique shop in San Francisco, California ( located in the Japanese - occupied Pacific States of America ), which is most commonly frequented by the Japanese, who make a fetish of romanticized American cultural artifacts. Childan is contacted by Nobusuke Tagomi, a high - ranking Japanese trade official, who is seeking a gift to impress a visiting Swedish industrialist named Baynes. Childan 's store is stocked in part with antiques from the Wyndam - Matson Corporation, a metalworking company. Frank Frink ( formerly Fink ), a secretly Jewish -- American veteran of World War II, has just been fired from the Wyndam - Matson factory, when he agrees to join a former coworker to begin a handcrafted jewelry business. Meanwhile, Frink 's ex-wife, Juliana, works as a judo instructor in Cañon City, Colorado ( in the neutral buffer zone of Mountain States ), where she begins a sexual relationship with an Italian truck driver and ex-soldier, Joe Cinnadella. Throughout the book, many of these characters frequently make important decisions using prophetic messages they interpret from the I Ching. Many characters are also reading a widely banned yet extremely popular new novel, The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, which depicts an alternate history in which the Allies won World War II, a concept that amazes and intrigues its readers. Frink reveals that the Wyndam - Matson Corporation has been supplying Childan with counterfeit antiques, which effectively works to blackmail Wyndam - Matson for money to finance Frink 's new jewelry venture. Tagomi and Baynes meet, but Baynes repeatedly delays any real business as they await an expected third party from Japan. Suddenly, the public receives news of the death of the recently ill Chancellor of Germany, Martin Bormann. Childan tentatively, on consignment, takes some of Frink 's `` authentic '' new metalwork and attempts to curry favor with a Japanese client, who surprisingly considers Frink 's jewellery immensely spiritually alive. Juliana and Joe take a road trip to Denver, Colorado, and Joe impulsively decides they should go on a side - trip to meet the mysterious Hawthorne Abendsen, author of The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, who supposedly lives in a guarded fortress - like estate called the `` High Castle '' in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Soon, Joseph Goebbels is announced as the new German Chancellor. Baynes and Tagomi finally meet their Japanese contact as two agents of the Nazi secret police, the Sicherheitsdienst ( SD ), close in to arrest Baynes, who is actually revealed to be a Nazi defector named Rudolf Wegener. Wegener warns his contact, a famed Japanese general, of Operation Dandelion, an upcoming Goebbels - approved plan for the Nazis to surprise - attack the Japanese Home Islands, in order to obliterate them in one swift stroke. As Frink is elsewhere exposed as a Jew and arrested, Wegener and Tagomi are confronted by the SD agents, both of whom Tagomi shoots dead with an antique American pistol. Back in Colorado, Joe abruptly changes his appearance and mannerisms before the trip to the High Castle, leading Juliana to deduce that he intends to actually murder Abendsen. Joe confirms this, revealing himself to be an undercover Swiss Nazi assassin. Juliana mortally wounds Joe and drives off to warn Abendsen of the threat to his life. Wegener flies back to Germany where upon landing learns that Reinhard Heydrich ( a member of the anti-Dandelion faction ) has launched a coup against Goebbels, possibly installing himself as Chancellor. Meanwhile, Tagomi remains shaken by the shootout and goes to Childan to sell back the gun he used in the fight ; however, instead, sensing the energy from one of Frink 's jewelery items, Tagomi impulsively buys it from Childan, before undergoing a spiritually intense ambiguous moment where he momentarily perceives an alternative - history version of San Francisco. Later, Tagomi on a whim forces the German authorities to release Frink, whom Tagomi has never met and does not know is the maker of the jewelery. Juliana soon has her own spiritual experience when she arrives in Cheyenne. There, she discovers that Abendsen now lives in a normal house with his family, having left behind the High Castle due to a change of outlook ; he no longer preoccupies himself with thoughts that he might soon be assassinated. After dodging many of Juliana 's questions about his inspiration for his novel, Abendsen finally confesses that he in fact used the I Ching to guide his writing of The Grasshopper Lies Heavy. Before leaving, Juliana infers then that `` Truth '' wrote the book in order to reveal the `` Inner Truth '' that Japan and Germany really lost World War II. The Grasshopper Lies Heavy Several characters in The Man in the High Castle read the popular novel The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, by Hawthorne Abendsen, whose title is assumed or supposed to have come from the Bible verse `` The grasshopper shall be a burden '' ( Ecclesiastes 12 : 5 ). Thus, The Grasshopper Lies Heavy constitutes a novel within a novel, wherein Abendsen writes of an alternative universe, where the Axis Powers lost World War II ( 1939 -- 1947 ). For this reason, the Germans have banned the novel in the occupied U.S., but it is widely read in the Pacific, and its publication is legal in the neutral countries. The Grasshopper Lies Heavy postulates that President Roosevelt survives an assassination attempt but forgoes re-election in 1940, honoring George Washington 's two - term limit. The next president, Rexford Tugwell, removes the Pacific Fleet from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, saving it from Japanese attack, which ensures that the U.S. enters the conflict a well - equipped naval power. The United Kingdom retains most of its military - industrial strength, contributing more to the Allied war effort, leading to Rommel 's defeat in North Africa ; the British advance through the Caucasus to fight alongside the Soviets to victory in the Battle of Stalingrad ; Italy reneges on its membership in the Axis Powers and betrays them ; British tanks and the Red Army jointly conquer Berlin ; at the end of the war, the Nazi leaders -- including Adolf Hitler -- are tried for their war crimes, wherein the Führer 's last words are Deutsche, hier steh ' ich ( `` Germans, here I stand '' ), in imitation of Martin Luther. After the war, Winston Churchill remains the British Prime Minister, and, because of its military - industrial might, the British Empire does not collapse. The Soviet Union, crippled by war losses, collapses. The U.S. establishes strong business relations with Chiang Kai - shek 's right - wing regime in China after vanquishing the Communist Mao Zedong in the Chinese Civil War. The British Empire becomes more racist and expansionist post-war, while the U.S. outlaws Jim Crow laws, resolving its racism by the 1950s. Both changes provoke racial - cultural tensions between the U.S. and the U.K., leading them to a Cold War for global hegemony between their two vaguely liberal, democratic, capitalist societies. Although the end of the novel is never depicted in the text, one character claims the book ends with the British Empire eventually defeating the U.S., becoming the sole world superpower. Inspirations Dick said he conceived The Man in the High Castle when reading Bring the Jubilee ( 1953 ), by Ward Moore, which occurs in an alternative nineteenth - century U.S. wherein the Confederate States of America won the American Civil War. In the acknowledgments to the book, he mentions other influences : The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich ( 1960 ), by William L. Shirer ; Hitler : A Study in Tyranny ( 1962 ), by Alan Bullock ; The Goebbels Diaries ( 1948 ), Louis P. Lochner, translator ; Foxes of the Desert ( 1960 ), by Paul Carrell ; and the 1950 translation of the I Ching by Richard Wilhelm. The acknowledgments have three references to traditional Japanese and Tibetan poetic forms ; ( i ) volume one of the Anthology of Japanese Literature ( 1955 ), edited by Donald Keene, from which is cited the haiku on page 48 ; ( ii ) from Zen and Japanese Culture ( 1955 ), by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, from which is cited a waka on page 135 ; and ( iii ) the Tibetan Book of the Dead ( 1960 ), edited by Walter Evans - Wentz. Nathanael West 's Miss Lonelyhearts ( 1933 ) is also mentioned in the text, written before the Roosevelt assassination divergence point that separates the world of The Man in the High Castle from ours. In this novella, `` Miss Lonelyhearts '' is a male newspaper journalist who writes anonymous advice as an agony aunt to forlorn readers during the height of the Great Depression ; hence, `` Miss Lonelyhearts '' tries to find consolation in religion, casual sex, rural vacations, and work, none of which provide him with the sense of authenticity and engagement with the outside world that he needs. West 's book is about the elusive quality of interpersonal relationships and quest for personal meaning at a time of political turmoil within the United States. Philip Dick used the I Ching to make decisions crucial to the plot of The Man in the High Castle just as characters within the novel use the I Ching to guide decisions. Reception This section needs expansion with : further, broader statements aimed at encyclopedic, balanced views. You can help by adding to it. ( February 2014 ) In The Religion of Science Fiction, Frederick A. Kreuziger explores the theory of history implied by Dick 's creation of the two alternative realities : Neither of the two worlds, however, the revised version of the outcome of WWII nor the fictional account of our present world, is anywhere near similar to the world we are familiar with. But they could be ! This is what the book is about. The book argues that this world, described twice, although differently each time, is exactly the world we know and are familiar with. Indeed, it is the only world we know : the world of chance, luck, fate. Avram Davidson praised the novel as a `` superior work of fiction '', citing Dick 's use of the I Ching as `` fascinating ''. Davidson concluded that `` It 's all here -- extrapolation, suspense, action, art, philosophy, plot, ( and ) character. '' The Man in the High Castle secured for Dick the 1963 Hugo Award for Best Novel. A new paperback edition of the novel was published in 1992 by Vintage Books. Adaptations Audiobook An unabridged The Man in the High Castle audiobook, read by George Guidall and running approximately 9.5 hours over seven audio cassettes, was released in 1997. Another unabridged audiobook version was released in 2008 by Blackstone Audio, read by Tom Wyner and running approximately 8.5 hours over seven CDs. A third unabridged audiobook recording was released in 2014 by Brilliance Audio, read by Jeff Cummings with a running time of 9 hours 58 minutes. Television Main article : The Man in the High Castle ( TV series ) After a number of attempts to adapt the book to the screen, in October 2014 Amazon 's film production unit began filming the pilot episode of The Man in the High Castle in Roslyn, Washington, for release through the Amazon Prime Web video streaming service. The pilot episode was released by Amazon Studios on January 15, 2015, and was Amazon 's `` most watched pilot ever '' according to Amazon Studios ' vice president, Roy Price. On February 18, 2015, Amazon green - lit the series. The show became available for streaming on November 20, 2015. The television series diverges from the novel in many significant respects. Both the Pacific States of America and the Eastern American puppet state appear to be mere provinces of the Japanese and German empires without any apparent autonomous ( even quisling ) government institutions whatsoever. The Rocky Mountain States become an anarchic Neutral Zone. World War II appears to have ended following the destruction of Washington, D.C. with an atomic bomb, rather than a land invasion as in the book. As for Hitler, while elderly, he is apparently mostly hale in his Season 1 finale appearance, though other characters elsewhere in the season do reference his supposed physical infirmity. In the novel, the Italian Empire is a minor power that controls North Africa and the Middle East ; in the series, however, it is shown through maps that these territories are part of the Nazi Empire, suggesting that either the Italian Empire was annexed after the war or is self - governing within the Reich. Characters from the book that do appear are in most cases far more fleshed out with deeper and sometimes rather different backstories than their novel originals. For instance, Wegener is a Standartenführer in the SS, rather than a naval captain ( and oddly there are no German military or naval -- as opposed to SS -- personnel depicted anywhere in the first season ). Rather than being a member of an organized internal resistance ( and despite his relatively low rank ) Wegener is a close personal confidante of Hitler and his disillusionment with the regime appears to be largely personal. Juliana and Frank are unmarried, but living together, rather than divorced and separated. Frank has a sister, nephew and niece, although they are killed early in the series, and this propels him into a more active role in relation to the resistance. Juliana also has a sister whose murder by the Kenpeitai early in the season instigates her search for the mysterious Man in the High Castle, as well as her having a mother and stepfather who are significant supporting characters. Joe Cinnadella is renamed Joe Blake and as he becomes closer to Juliana appears to have growing doubts about his role as a Nazi agent. Robert Childan is, however, a more minor character in Season 1 than the original, while Ed McCarthy has a rather more prominent and active role. There are several major additional characters introduced by the television series and numerous narrative details and the plotline differ radically from the source novel. For example, the planned Nazi pre-emptive nuclear strike on Japan, `` Operation Dandelion, '' is apparently being prevented only by Hitler 's personal refusal to authorise it, leading Heydrich and the faction demanding pre-emptive war to plot the Führer 's assassination. In addition, Hawthorne Abendsen does not appear in the first season of the television version and The Grasshopper Lies Heavy is a series of newsreel films depicting multiple alternative realities rather than a novel ( although this idea may actually be borrowed from Dick 's later novel Valis which features a mysterious film depicting yet another dystopian alternative history of the USA ). As of the Season 1 finale, these films are being tracked down by SS agents like Blake for dispatch to Hitler for an as - yet - unknown purpose. In season two we see a map on John Smith 's wall of the world. From this map we can see that Japan controls the entirety of the Pacific Ocean and most of the Asian continent, including China, India and half of Russia. Japan is also shown to control Australia, New Zealand, western Canada, Alaska and, all pacific states in the USA. We also see that that the Japanese Empire controls the Yucatán Peninsula and South American countries like Chile. In contrast, Nazi Germany is shown as controlling all of Europe, Africa and the Middle East. The German Empire also controls all of the United States and Canada up to the Rockies in the west and South American countries like Brazil. Germany also controls the western parts of former USSR such as the Ukraine. There are also buffer zones between the empires. Neither empire seems to have invaded Mexico and this neutral zone continues up through the Rockies and through Canada. A similar neutral zone is seen dividing Russia in half. Season two also shows two very different lifestyles in the Japanese controlled Pacific states and the German controlled east. The Germans have colonized the eastern states and are assimilating its inhabitants into Nazi beliefs. The Japanese Empire is occupying the pacific states versus colonizing them. There is enforced segregation between Japanese and Americans citizens. It is implied that Native Americans and Pacific Islanders were exterminated by the Germans. Incomplete sequel In a 1976 interview, Dick said he planned to write a sequel novel to The Man in the High Castle : `` And so there 's no real ending on it. I like to regard it as an open ending. It will segue into a sequel sometime. '' Dick said that he had `` started several times to write a sequel '', but progressed little, because he was too disturbed by his original research for The Man in the High Castle and could not mentally bear `` to go back and read about Nazis again. '' He suggested that the sequel would be a collaboration with another author : Somebody would have to come in and help me do a sequel to it. Someone who had the stomach for the stamina to think along those lines, to get into the head ; if you 're going to start writing about Reinhard Heydrich, for instance, you have to get into his face. Can you imagine getting into Reinhard Heydrich 's face ? Two chapters of the proposed sequel were published in The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick, a collection of his essays and other writings. Dick 's novel Radio Free Albemuth is rumored to have started as a sequel to The Man in the High Castle. Dick described the plot of this early version of Radio Free Albemuth -- then titled VALISystem A -- writing :... a divine and loving ETI ( extraterrestrial intelligence )... help ( s ) Hawthorne Abendsen, the protagonist - author in ( The Man in the High Castle ), continue on in his difficult life after the Nazi secret police finally got to him... VALISystem A, located in deep space, sees to it that nothing, absolutely nothing, can prevent Abendsen from finishing his novel. The novel eventually evolved into a new story unrelated to The Man in the High Castle. Dick ultimately abandoned the Albemuth book, unpublished during his lifetime, though portions were salvaged and used for 1981 's VALIS. The full book was published in 1985, three years after Dick 's death. See also Novels portal Hypothetical Axis victory in World War II Simulated reality in fiction The Iron Dream Fatherland References Jump up ^ Staff ( December 15, 1962 ). `` New Fiction ''. Library Corner. Dixon Evening Telegraph. Dixon, Illinois. Retrieved October 25, 2015 -- via Newspapers.com. ^ Jump up to : Dick, Philip K. ( 2011 ). The Man in the High Castle ( 1st Mariner Books ed. ). Boston : Mariner Books. p. ix - x. ISBN 9780547601205. Retrieved December 10, 2015. ^ Jump up to : Cover, Arthur Byron ( February 1974 ). `` Interview with Philip K. Dick ''. 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Wright, Will ; Kaplan, Steven ( eds. ) ; Pueblo, CO : Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, Colorado State University - Pueblo ; pp. 107 -- 11. Campbell, Laura E. 1992. `` Dickian Time in The Man in the High Castle '', Extrapolation, 33 : 3, pp. 190 -- 201. Carter, Cassie 1995. `` The Metacolonization of Dick 's The Man in the High Castle : Mimicry, Parasitism and Americanism in the PSA '', Science - Fiction Studies # 67, 22 : 3, pp. 333 -- 342. DiTommaso, Lorenzo, 1999. `` Redemption in Philip K. Dick 's The Man in the High Castle '', Science - Fiction Studies # 77, 26 :, pp. 91 -- 119. Fofi, Goffredo 1997. `` Postfazione '', Philip K. Dick, La Svastica sul Sole, Roma, Fanucci, pp. 391 -- 5. Hayles, N. Katherine 1983. `` Metaphysics and Metafiction in The Man in the High Castle '', Philip K. Dick. Greenberg, M.H. ; Olander, J.D. ( eds. ) ; New York : Taplinger, 1983, pp. 53 -- 71. Malmgren, Carl D. 1980. `` Philip Dick 's The Man in the High Castle and the Nature of Science Fictional Worlds '', Bridges to Science Fiction. Slusser, George E. ; Guffey, George R. ; Rose, Mark ( eds. ) ; Carbondale and Edwardsville : Southern Illinois University Press, pp. 120 -- 30. Mountfort, Paul 2016. `` The I Ching and Philip K. Dick 's The Man in the High Castle '', Science - Fiction Studies # 129, 43 :, pp. 287 -- 309. Pagetti, Carlo, 2001a. `` La svastica americana '' ( Introduction ), Philip K. Dick, L'uomo nell'alto castello, Roma : Fanucci, pp. 7 -- 26. Proietti, Salvatore, 1989. `` The Man in The High Castle : politica e metaromanzo '', Il sogno dei simulacri. Pagetti, Carlo ; Viviani, Gianfranco ( eds. ) ; Milano : Nord, 1989 pp. 34 -- 41. Rieder, John 1988. `` The Metafictive World of The Man in the High Castle : Hermeneutics, Ethics, and Political Ideology '', Science - Fiction Studies # 45, 15.2 : 214 - 25. Rossi, Umberto, 2000. `` All Around the High Castle : Narrative Voices and Fictional Visions in Philip K. Dick 's The Man in the High Castle '', Telling the Stories of America -- History, Literature and the Arts -- Proceedings of the 14th AISNA Biennial conference ( Pescara, 1997 ), Clericuzio, A. ; Goldoni, Annalisa ; Mariani, Andrea ( eds. ) ; Roma : Nuova Arnica, pp. 474 -- 83. Simons, John L. 1985. `` The Power of Small Things in Philip K. Dick 's The Man in the High Castle ''. The Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, 39 : 4, pp. 261 -- 75. Warrick, Patricia, 1992. `` The Encounter of Taoism and Fascism in The Man in the High Castle '', On Philip K. Dick, Mullen et al. ( eds. ) ; Terre Haute and Greencastle : SF - TH Inc. 1992, pp. 27 -- 52. External links The Man in the High Castle cover art gallery The Man in the High Castle at the Internet Book List The Man in the High Castle at Worlds Without End Philip K. Dick ( works ) Novels Gather Yourselves Together ( 1950 ) Voices from the Street ( 1952 ) Solar Lottery ( 1954 ) Mary and the Giant ( 1954 ) The World Jones Made ( 1954 ) Eye in the Sky ( 1955 ) The Man Who Japed ( 1955 ) A Time for George Stavros ( 1956 ) Pilgrim on the Hill ( 1956 ) The Broken Bubble ( 1956 ) The Cosmic Puppets ( 1957 ) Puttering About in a Small Land ( 1957 ) Nicholas and the Higs ( 1958 ) Time Out of Joint ( 1958 ) In Milton Lumky Territory ( 1958 ) Confessions of a Crap Artist ( 1959 ) The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike ( 1960 ) Humpty Dumpty in Oakland ( 1960 ) Vulcan 's Hammer ( 1960 ) Dr. Futurity ( 1960 ) The Man in the High Castle ( 1961 ) We Can Build You ( 1962 ) Martian Time - Slip ( 1962 ) Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb ( 1963 ) The Game - Players of Titan ( 1963 ) The Simulacra ( 1963 ) The Crack in Space ( 1963 ) Clans of the Alphane Moon ( 1964 ) The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch ( 1964 ) The Zap Gun ( 1964 ) The Penultimate Truth ( 1964 ) The Unteleported Man ( 1964 ) The Ganymede Takeover ( 1965 ) Counter-Clock World ( 1965 ) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ? ( 1966 ) Nick and the Glimmung ( 1966 ) Now Wait for Last Year ( 1966 ) Ubik ( 1966 ) Galactic Pot - Healer ( 1968 ) A Maze of Death ( 1968 ) Our Friends from Frolix 8 ( 1969 ) Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said ( 1974 ) Deus Irae ( 1976 ) Radio Free Albemuth ( 1976 ; published 1985 ) A Scanner Darkly ( 1977 ) VALIS ( 1981 ) The Divine Invasion ( 1981 ) The Transmigration of Timothy Archer ( 1982 ) The Owl in Daylight ( unfinished ) Collections A Handful of Darkness ( 1955 ) The Variable Man ( 1956 ) The Preserving Machine ( 1969 ) The Book of Philip K. Dick ( 1973 ) The Best of Philip K. Dick ( 1977 ) The Golden Man ( 1980 ) Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities ( 1984 ) I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon ( 1985 ) The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick ( 1987 ) Beyond Lies the Wub ( 1988 ) The Dark Haired Girl ( 1989 ) The Father - Thing ( 1989 ) Second Variety ( 1989 ) The Days of Perky Pat ( 1990 ) The Little Black Box ( 1990 ) The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford ( 1990 ) We Can Remember It for You Wholesale ( 1990 ) The Minority Report ( 1991 ) Second Variety ( 1991 ) The Eye of the Sibyl ( 1992 ) The Philip K. Dick Reader ( 1997 ) Minority Report ( 2002 ) Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick ( 2002 ) Paycheck ( 2004 ) Vintage PKD ( 2006 ) The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick ( 2011 ) Short stories `` Beyond Lies the Wub '' ( 1952 ) `` The Gun '' ( 1952 ) `` The Skull '' ( 1952 ) `` The Little Movement '' ( 1952 ) `` The Defenders '' ( 1953 ) `` Mr. Spaceship '' ( 1953 ) `` Piper in the Woods '' ( 1953 ) `` Roog '' ( 1953 ) `` The Infinites '' ( 1953 ) `` Second Variety '' ( 1953 ) `` Colony '' ( 1953 ) `` The Cookie Lady '' ( 1953 ) `` Impostor '' ( 1953 ) `` Paycheck '' ( 1953 ) `` The Preserving Machine '' ( 1953 ) `` Expendable '' ( 1953 ) `` The Indefatigable Frog '' ( 1953 ) `` The Commuter '' ( 1953 ) `` Out in the Garden '' ( 1953 ) `` The Great C '' ( 1953 ) `` The King of the Elves '' ( 1953 ) `` The Trouble with Bubbles '' ( 1953 ) `` The Variable Man '' ( 1953 ) `` The Impossible Planet '' ( 1953 ) `` Planet for Transients '' ( 1953 ) `` The Builder '' ( 1953 ) `` Tony and the Beetles '' ( 1953 ) `` The Hanging Stranger '' ( 1953 ) `` Prize Ship '' ( 1954 ) `` Beyond the Door '' ( 1954 ) `` The Crystal Crypt '' ( 1954 ) `` The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford '' ( 1954 ) `` The Golden Man '' ( 1954 ) `` Sales Pitch '' ( 1954 ) `` Breakfast at Twilight '' ( 1954 ) `` The Crawlers '' ( 1954 ) `` Exhibit Piece '' ( 1954 ) `` Adjustment Team '' ( 1954 ) `` Shell Game '' ( 1954 ) `` Meddler '' ( 1954 ) `` A World of Talent '' ( 1954 ) `` The Last of the Masters '' ( 1954 ) `` Upon the Dull Earth '' ( 1954 ) `` The Father - thing '' ( 1954 ) `` Strange Eden '' ( 1954 ) `` The Turning Wheel '' ( 1954 ) `` The Hood Maker '' ( 1954 ) `` Foster, You 're Dead ! '' ( 1955 ) `` Human Is '' ( 1955 ) `` War Veteran '' ( 1955 ) `` Captive Market '' ( 1955 ) `` Nanny '' ( 1955 ) `` The Chromium Fence '' ( 1955 ) `` Service Call '' ( 1955 ) `` The Mold of Yancy '' ( 1955 ) `` Autofac '' ( 1955 ) `` Psi - man Heal My Child ! '' ( 1955 ) `` The Minority Report '' ( 1956 ) `` Pay for the Printer '' ( 1956 ) `` A Glass of Darkness '' ( 1956 ) `` The Unreconstructed M '' ( 1957 ) `` Null - O '' ( 1958 ) `` Explorers We '' ( 1959 ) `` Recall Mechanism '' ( 1959 ) `` Fair Game '' ( 1959 ) `` War Game '' ( 1959 ) `` All We Marsmen '' ( 1963 ) `` What 'll We Do with Ragland Park ? '' ( 1963 ) `` The Days of Perky Pat '' ( 1963 ) `` If There Were No Benny Cemoli '' ( 1963 ) `` Waterspider '' ( 1964 ) `` Novelty Act '' ( 1964 ) `` Oh, to Be a Blobel ! '' ( 1964 ) `` The War with the Fnools '' ( 1964 ) `` What the Dead Men Say '' ( 1964 ) `` Orpheus with Clay Feet '' ( 1964 ) `` Cantata 140 '' ( 1964 ) `` The Unteleported Man '' ( 1964 ) `` Retreat Syndrome '' ( 1965 ) `` Project Plowshare ( later `` The Zap Gun '' ) '' ( 1965 ) `` We Can Remember It for You Wholesale '' ( 1966 ) `` Faith of Our Fathers '' ( 1967 ) `` Not by Its Cover '' ( 1968 ) `` The Electric Ant '' ( 1969 ) `` A. Lincoln, Simulacrum '' ( 1969 ) `` The Pre-persons '' ( 1974 ) `` A Little Something for Us Tempunauts '' ( 1974 ) `` The Exit Door Leads In '' ( 1979 ) `` Rautavaara 's Case '' ( 1980 ) `` I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon '' ( 1980 ) `` The Eye of the Sibyl '' ( 1987 ) `` Stability '' ( 1987 ) Adaptations Films Blade Runner ( 1982 ) Total Recall ( 1990 ) Confessions d'un Barjo ( 1992 ) Screamers ( 1995 ) Impostor ( 2002 ) Minority Report ( 2002 ) Paycheck ( 2003 ) A Scanner Darkly ( 2006 ) Next ( 2007 ) Screamers : The Hunting ( 2009 ) Radio Free Albemuth ( 2010 ) The Adjustment Bureau ( 2011 ) Total Recall ( 2012 ) 2036 : Nexus Dawn ( 2017 ) 2048 : Nowhere to Run ( 2017 ) Blade Runner Black Out 2022 ( 2017 ) Blade Runner 2049 ( 2017 ) TV series Total Recall 2070 ( 1999 ) The Man in the High Castle ( 2015 -- present ) Minority Report ( 2015 ) Philip K. Dick 's Electric Dreams ( 2017 ) Related Philip K. Dick Award Hugo Award for Best Novel Retro The Sword in the Stone by T.H. White ( 1939 ) Slan by A.E. van Vogt ( 1941 ) The Mule by Isaac Asimov ( 1946 ) Farmer in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein ( 1951 ) Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury ( 1954 ) 1953 -- 1975 The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester ( 1953 ) They 'd Rather Be Right ( aka : The Forever Machine ) by Mark Clifton and Frank Riley ( 1955 ) Double Star by Robert A. Heinlein ( 1956 ) The Big Time by Fritz Leiber ( 1958 ) A Case of Conscience by James Blish ( 1959 ) Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein ( 1960 ) A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. ( 1961 ) Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein ( 1962 ) The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick ( 1963 ) Here Gather the Stars ( aka : Way Station ) by Clifford D. Simak ( 1964 ) The Wanderer by Fritz Leiber ( 1965 ) Dune by Frank Herbert ( 1966, tie )... And Call Me Conrad ( aka : This Immortal ) by Roger Zelazny ( 1966, tie ) The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein ( 1967 ) Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny ( 1968 ) Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner ( 1969 ) The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin ( 1970 ) Ringworld by Larry Niven ( 1971 ) To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer ( 1972 ) The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov ( 1973 ) Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke ( 1974 ) The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin ( 1975 ) 1976 -- 2000 The Forever War by Joe Haldeman ( 1976 ) Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm ( 1977 ) Gateway by Frederik Pohl ( 1978 ) Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre ( 1979 ) The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke ( 1980 ) The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge ( 1981 ) Downbelow Station by C.J. Cherryh ( 1982 ) Foundation 's Edge by Isaac Asimov ( 1983 ) Startide Rising by David Brin ( 1984 ) Neuromancer by William Gibson ( 1985 ) Ender 's Game by Orson Scott Card ( 1986 ) Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card ( 1987 ) The Uplift War by David Brin ( 1988 ) Cyteen by C.J. Cherryh ( 1989 ) Hyperion by Dan Simmons ( 1990 ) The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold ( 1991 ) Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold ( 1992 ) A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge / Doomsday Book by Connie Willis ( 1993 ) Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson ( 1994 ) Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold ( 1995 ) The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson ( 1996 ) Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson ( 1997 ) Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman ( 1998 ) To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis ( 1999 ) A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge ( 2000 ) 2001 -- present Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling ( 2001 ) American Gods by Neil Gaiman ( 2002 ) Hominids by Robert J. Sawyer ( 2003 ) Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold ( 2004 ) Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke ( 2005 ) Spin by Robert Charles Wilson ( 2006 ) Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge ( 2007 ) The Yiddish Policemen 's Union by Michael Chabon ( 2008 ) The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman ( 2009 ) The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi / The City & the City by China Miéville ( 2010 ) Blackout / All Clear by Connie Willis ( 2011 ) Among Others by Jo Walton ( 2012 ) Redshirts by John Scalzi ( 2013 ) Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie ( 2014 ) The Three - Body Problem by Cixin Liu ( 2015 ) The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin ( 2016 ) The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin ( 2017 ) Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Man_in_the_High_Castle&oldid=835816521 '' Categories : 1962 American novels 1962 science fiction novels American alternate history novels Dystopian novels Hugo Award for Best Novel - winning works Metafictional novels Postmodern novels Novels by Philip K. 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Question: what do the films mean in high castle
Answer: The Grasshopper Lies Heavy is a series of newsreel films depicting multiple alternative realities; as-yet-unknown purpose