The Man in the High Castle

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.

The I Ching is used inside the novel. Several characters, Tagomi, Frank Frink and Juliana among them, consult the oracle to decide what to do, and the hexagrams they cast are quoted. Hawthorne Abendsen, the author of the novel-within-the-novel, turns out to have written it with the oracle's help, and the book ends on the hexagram Inner Truth. Dick said in interviews that he consulted the I Ching himself while writing it.