America, 1962. Slavery is legal again. The few Jews who survive are hiding under pseudonyms. In San Francisco, Ji King is as commonplace as the phone book. This is because the Allied Powers lost World War II and the US territory is now shared jointly by Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany. But they say there is a book. A forbidden book about another world. It is also said that in that other world the war was won by the Allies. Everyone is looking for reality, but does reality exist at all?

Philip K. Dick's Hugo Award-winning novel has now become a classic of the science fiction genre. It simultaneously created the genre of alternative historical novels and elevated its author to one of the greatest figures in science fiction literature. The reader holds the novel in his hand in a new edition.