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The man in the high castle : a novel

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Description: Life in America against the background of a globe controlled by Germany and Japan--a novel of our world as it might have been.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1962]
Call number: 660905
Creator: Dick, Philip K(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Kim Stanley Robinson, August 2025. From the library of Kim Stanley Robinson.
Dimensions: 22 cm
Associated people: Galster, Robert,; Robinson, Kim Stanley,
Associated organizations: G.P. Putnam's Sons,; Kim Stanley Robinson Library (Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens).

The man in the high castle

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Philip K. Dick letters, essay, and interview

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Photocopies of letters by Philip D. Dick, some in German, a copy of an article and essay by Dick, and a transcript of an interview with Dick by Uwe Anton and Werner Fuchs. They are all photocopies.

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History of the universe : a novel

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Parable of the talents : a novel

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"Parable of the Talents celebrates the classic Butlerian themes of alienation and transcendence, violence and spirituality, slavery and freedom, separation and community, to astonishing effect, in the shockingly familiar, broken world of 2032. Long awaited, Parable of the Talents is the continuation of the travails of Lauren Olamina, the heroine of 1994's Nebula-Prize finalist, bestselling Parable of the Sower. Parable of the Talents is told in the voice of Lauren Olamina's daughter--from whom she has been separated for most of the girl's life--with sections in the form of Lauren's journal. Against a background of a war-torn continent, and with a far-right religious crusader in the office of the U.S. presidency, this is a book about a society whose very fabric has been torn asunder, and where the basic physical and emotional needs of people seem almost impossible to meet"--

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In the wake of the pioneers : novel

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Manuscript of a novel by Heber R. Woolley, originally written under the pseudonym of Joshua Tobin. The novel tells the story of Johnny Grant, a devout Mormon living in Salt Lake City in the second half of the nineteenth century. It opens with a sixteen-year-old Johnny (born "ten years after the first band of Mormons had come to Deseret") growing up in a polygamous family as the son of the neglectful Bishop Grant and his second wife. The novel traces Johnny's life as he tries and often fails at a variety of business endeavors, moves to Idaho, serves on a mission to England, and is made a Bishop. It also tells the parallel story of Johnny's less-devout wife, Martha. Toward the end of the novel, Johnny leaves the Church and turns to Darwin and Freud, at one point declaring that he has become an atheist. The story is set against a backdrop of debates over polygamy and tithing, and is apparently intended to criticize perceived hypocritical doctrines of the Mormon Church.

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