It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some twenty years earlier the United States lost a war--and is now occupied by Nazi Germany and Japan.小说以 易经 牵引情节 通过对不同阶层,不同身份的人物的穿插描述 讲述了一个反转过来的 历史----同盟国在二战中战败 美国被德国和日本分割霸占 探讨了正义与非正义,文化自卑和身份认同 以及法西斯独裁和种族歧视给人类社会造成的后果 通过对一系列不同人物的塑造 菲利普*迪克讲述了真实和虚幻的生活及历史