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Added by Media Influence Map · 16 September 2026

The influence
The Man in the High Castle
Book · 1962

The work it shaped
The Man in the High Castle
TV Series · 2015
The Amazon series from Philip K. Dick's novel, developed by Frank Spotnitz. The series changes the one thing the novel is built on. In the book, the work within the work is a novel, The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, describing a world where the Allies won; the series makes it newsreel FILM, which lets it show the alternative rather than have characters describe it. That is a real gain on screen and a real loss of Dick's argument, which is about how a text is read and doubted. The I Ching, Juliana, Tagomi and the Nazi-Japanese partition of America all carry over.
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