This novel is set on the United States, a couple of decades after it was defeated by the [Axis powers]? in World War II. The eastern States are under german influence, the western, under the japanese. The title character is a writer who has published a best-selling alternate world novel ('The grasshopper lies heavy') in which the Axis powers lost the war; a world similar to, but not entirely like our own. |
An alternate history novel, The Man in the High Castle is set in the United States, several decades after defeat by the [Axis powers]? in World War II. The eastern States are under German influence, the western, under the Japanese. The title character is a writer who has published a best-selling alternate world novel ('The Grasshopper Lies Heavy') in which the Axis powers lost the war; a world similar to, but not entirely like our own. The book won the 1963 Hugo award for best novel. |