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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Wheat Fields
There were different stages of wheat-fuelled fun to be had in my childhood, all just a stone’s throw from my back yard, and each one as thrilling as a page from an adventure book. A great wall stood between me and my golden kingdom - a towering behemoth in my young eyes, its domed, half-moon … Continue reading Wheat Fields
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