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• Author: Suderman, Peter
• Position: Briefly Noted - Amazon's "The Man in the High Castle" - Television program review - Brief article

Technically, Amazon's latest original series, The Man in the High Castle, is an adaptation of Philip K. Dick's award-winning novel of the same name. As in the book, the series takes place in an alternate history in which the Axis powers won World War II; the Nazis and the Japanese occupy the East and West coasts of the United States, respectively.

In fact, the series relies much more on the novel's setting-than on the particulars of Dick's narrative, and in many ways it feels more like a conventional spy thriller dressed up in...