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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I haven't read the books or watched the series yet. Just finished Locke and Key and I'm trying to decide now if I should watch Altered Carbon or Hell On Wheels.
I'm so used to Dick's movie adaptations only being tangentially related to the source, I'd assumed Man In The High Castle was the same.
Have you watched Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams on Amazon?
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Yes. I liked that mini series.
I have a few books of PKD short stories and novellas around somewhere, I havent found it since I moved. The thing about The Man in the High Castle was that the TV version was a very good update on the concept. When I looked at the publication date of the book, I thought that very few people would have understood quantum theories at the time, and I figure PKD might be the first author to exploit it. I was surprised at how PKD went about it, it was nowhere as straightforward as the TV series. In fact, until the TV series I thought High Castle was just an alternate history, a genre I avoid. For the time it was written, alternate realities/universes were not the standard fare they are today.
But you are correct, the TV update is only similar to the book. I still enjoyed them both.
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