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A Review: The Man in the High Castle

Christians in the United States sometimes talk in rather exaggerated terms of being “persecuted.”   What would life be like for us if we actually lived in a totalitarian state without basic civil rights?   The Man in the High Castle , an alternative history series on Amazon, gives us some ideas. The series is loosely based Philip K. Dick's classic award-winning novel.   In adapting the story for television, creator Frank Spotniz has taken great liberties with the original source.   Spotniz, who was associated with The X Files , freely exercises some of the political and social satire of the former series in showing a United States of America in 1960 where the Allies lost World War Two.    In this version of history, the United States has been divided into three parts: the Japanese Pacific States in the west, the Greater Nazi Reich in the east and the Rocky Mountain States (or the Neutral Zone ) in the middle.   Hitler is still alive,...