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The Man In The High Castle - the 1962 book which established Phillip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas. His Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (which was made into my favorite sci-fi movie, Blade Runner) is a classic.
It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because 20 years earlier the United States lost a war - and is now occupied jointly by Nazi Germany and Japan.
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“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” - To Kill A Mockingbird (Atticus Finch)
“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” - Robert Heinlein
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