Comment by palmotea
4 hours ago
> I really wonder how my life would be different if someone told be that the US, which for me was as close to a paradise as it gets, will go down the same road in the future - I think it would shatter quite a lot of my dreams of a better life.
That reminds me of one of the things that stuck with me from The Man in the High Castle (the book). The main story is an alternate timeline where the Nazis/Japanese won WWII and conquered America. Then there's an alternate-timeline-within-the-alternate-timeline where America/Britain won WWII, but it's not our timeline (and it's hinted there that the liberal US was eventually defeated by a British Empire gone full authoritarian). Everything passes away. The good guys sometimes win, but eventually they lose too.
Wow, thank you for the effort in typing out that this synopsis! Seems like quite the compelling read.
I have already retrieved the book & will start it tonight.
It's a great book. Phillip K Dick, there is no author like him.
It's a fantastic book, highly recommend to read.
There is also a TV series based on it (on Amazon Prime I think), but as usually, it's not as good as the book.
I also enjoyed the TV series equally.
Heh, I was watching the series two days ago. That reminds me that I have to buy both Ubik and The Man in the High Castle, preferabily cheap but commented (with footnotes) ones in Spanish. PKD it's very tedious to readin English for non natives. And sometimes in Spanish too.