It is 1962 and the Second World War has been over for seventeen years: people have now had a chance to adjust to the new order. But its not been easy. The Mediterranean has been drained to make farmland, the population of Africa has virtually been wiped out and America has been divided between the Nazis and the Japanese. In the neutral buffer zone that divides the two superpowers lives the man in the high castle, the author of an underground bestseller, a work of fiction that offers an alternative theory of world history in which the Axis powers didnt win the war. The novel is a rallying cry for all those who dream of overthrowing the occupiers. But could it be more than that? Subtle, complex and beautifully characterized, The Man in the High Castle remains the finest alternative world novel ever written, and a work of profundity and significance.

“科幻鬼纔”菲利普•迪剋成長於西方科技文明創造齣的嶄新輝煌的時代。彼時，人類進入瞭太空，登上瞭月球，成功製造齣第一颱工業用機器人……科技的蓬勃發展也催生齣主流科幻小說對人類創造力的無比自信，剋拉剋、阿西莫夫和海因萊因撐起瞭西方科幻的黃金時代。可是，迪剋卻反其道而行之，他的主人公迷惘於亦真亦假的世界上，掙紮於文明的陷落中，充滿瞭對生命的依戀和對人性的追求。

《高堡奇人》是菲利普•迪剋代錶作之一，架空曆史最傑齣的經典，雨果奬最佳長篇小說。小說以《易經》牽引情節，講述瞭一種反轉過來的“曆史”——同盟國在二戰中戰敗，美國被德國和日本分分割霸占，集權政治與東方哲學相互碰撞，探討瞭正義與非正義，文化自卑與身份認同，以及法西斯獨裁和種族歧視給人類社會造成的後果。著名科幻作傢韓鬆長文導讀。

2015年，亞馬遜將這部小說改編成13集係列劇《高堡奇人》，並在2016年12月齣完第二季，再次讓這部小說成為話題爆點，引發觀眾和讀者熱議：如果同盟國輸瞭二戰，世界將變怎樣？