by Philip K. Dick · Kalandraka · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788418558498
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In an imaginative and heartbreaking alternate history, Philip K. Dick transports us to a 1962 where the swastika flies in New York. In this alternate world, the Allies lost the war twenty years ago, and now Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan occupy the territory. Slavery is legal again, and the few surviving Jews hide under false identities. Amid this oppression, the I Ching has become the new horoscope, and a forbidden book titled 'The Grasshopper Lies Heavy' circulates among those who yearn for a world where the Allies won the war in 1945. This science fiction novel, winner of the Hugo Award, established Dick as a renovator of the genre, merging science fiction with the philosophical novel.
Philip Kindred Dick was an American science fiction short story writer and novelist. He wrote 45 novels and about 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines. His fiction explored varied philosophical and social questions such as the nature of reality, perception, human nature, and identity, and commonly featured characters struggling against alternate realities, illusory environments, monopolistic corporations, drug abuse, authoritarian governments, and altered states of consciousness. He is considered one of the most important figures in 20th-century science fiction.
