The fact that he does this with very little plot or particularly brilliant characters is all the more impressive. As a result, the United States withdraw into isolationism and let Nazi Germany and Japan conquer the world and become superpowers. As it´s often the case with such books, I already felt that it won´t end well, because it stayed slow during the last third and culminated in absolutely nothing senseful. Toward the end of his life, his work turned to deeply personal, metaphysical questions concerning the nature of God.

Charmed Life arrives in an explosion of magic in this edition illustrated by Alison Bryant and introduced by Katherine Rundell. That said, though some of PKD's works are better than others, to my mind they are all well worth reading. The letters: three original typed letters by PKD, addressed to Patricia Warrick with their corresponding mailing envelopes; and three copies of letters by Patricia Warrick addressed to Dick. Dick's celebrated novel of an alternate America, in which the Axis powers triumphed in World War II. While the Reich continues its pursuit of "racial purity" through the exterminations of ethnic minorities, disabled and queer peoples, Imperial Japan enacts policies of "judicial racism" focused mainly on the oppression of Black, Chinese, and Anglo Americans as a subservient working class.It is still different from our present day, but certainly more recognizable than the dystopia of The Man in the High Castle.

Dick ultimately abandoned the Albemuth book, unpublished during his lifetime, though portions were salvaged and used for 1981's VALIS. 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.As their narratives intersect, Dick poses larger metaphysical questions concerning the authentication of history, perception and the building blocks of destiny.