Written in the early ‘60s, Dick presents a fictional world that might have existed fifteen years after World War II if it had been won by Germany, Italy and Japan. The latter rules the Pacific States of America while the Nazis rule most of the rest of the world, including the eastern U.S.  They’ve drained the Mediterranean to create farmland and tried to kill all the Blacks in Africa. U.S. Blacks are slaves. The novel tells two parallel stories: a German secret agent is trying to warn the Japanese that the Reich is planning a nuclear assault on the Japanese Home Islands (Operation Dandelion) and Juliana Trink is involved with an SS assassin in Denver and Cheyenne in her attempt to meet Hawthorne Abendsen, author of The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, an alternative history in which the U.S. won the war. Dick shows amazing prescience about China’s rise but left me confused (as he intended to, no doubt) about what was real and what was an illusion. The book won the 1963 Hugo Award for Best Novel.