Some novels ask ‘What if?’ and there are novels that ask ‘What is?’ Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle manages the perverse trick of doing both at once. Set in a United States divided between Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan after an Axis victory in the Second World War, it ought to … Continue reading The Man in the High Castle: History as Hallucination
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The Madness of Crowds and the Lonesome Road to Sanity
I felt the unmistakable itch of a good, old-fashioned rant coming on - the kind that bubbles up like a kettle left screaming on the hob, demanding release before it scalds the lot of us. As for the sordid details of why, well, I shall spare you the tedium. Some things are best left festering … Continue reading The Madness of Crowds and the Lonesome Road to Sanity
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