Science Fiction

What is the difference in emphasis between the terms science fiction and speculative fiction? Which is The Man in the High Castle? 
"The Man in the High Castle" is a Science-fiction (SF) novel written by Phillip K. Dick, which involves time travel, aliens, space war, space adventure, which opens to space opera. It was discussed pulp or trash SF. The Man in the High Castle is speculative fiction.

 

 Phillip K. Dick is a writer when he "was born in Chicago in 1928". At the wartime, during the cold War and World War 2, he was often defined as a paranoia writer because he claims that CIA was investigating him.  Later, the people found out that CIA was really investigated on him because of what he wrote. He was on a list of suspect. So his guess was right. In his writings, the major theme was investigating.

He is described as "a maverick, a self-taught anti-establishment intellectual with an appetite for knowledge and an imitating ability to absorb information."

It has tradition 'I Ching' - orientalism. He liked to put tradition 'I Ching' - orientalism. Eric (2001) says, "The novel's two main characters consult the I Ching." Also, Dick states that 'I've used it to develop the direction of a novel.' on the I Ching.

He explains how things were impacted on humans.
There are funny dark jokes involved in the book.
It has a complicated relationship with mainstream.
He wrote 12 novels, but it wasn't published at that time.
Unpublished novels were published when he got famous.

It shows main-stream to time cannon.
It involves high act. We have to mind the person is switching into the subjective.

 

"The Man in the High Castle" demands thinking about problems when readers read.

There is no central hero figure unlike from other genre where the central hero figures lead the narrative. It has spiritual narrative. There is no central quest. 

 

Reference

 Dick, P. K. (1992). The man in the high castle. New York: Vintage Books.

 

Brown, E. (2001). Introduction. In Dick, P.K., The Man in the High Castle
(p.v-xii). London: Penguin

Mountfort P. (6006). Oracle-text/Cybertext in Phillip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle. Conference paper, Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Association annual joint conference, Atlanta, 2006.