Always a lovely day somewhere, sir.

It wouldn't have to be onscreen; it's not "onscreen" in the novel. Nothing is described after "He threw her down on the couch." He has one word of dialogue (" 'Nothing,' he repeated.") and then a new scene with other characters begins.

Not caretaker; Robin was his jaunte instructor.

It's also among the crimes he admits to Regis Sheffield, just before the climactic scene at St. Patrick's Cathedral.

I always hated that cover artwork (Gollancz 2010 edition). It's explicitly stated in part one of the novel (in dialogue between two key characters who had only seen Foyle with his facial tattoo) that Foyle's face would never be recognizable if he were able to have the tattooing removed. (Which becomes a plot element…

You're summarizing the outcome of the war as depicted in the excerpts of the Grasshopper novel that various characters read from time to time. Our own reality, the reality of the (circa 1962) reader, is what Tagomi sees, not the reality of the Grasshopper novel (even though Germany and Japan lost the war in both…

Why wasn't it our reality? Nothing in that scene in the novel suggests anything but our own San Francisco circa 1962, as I recall. Besides the elevated Freeway, it's mostly a matter of the (Caucasian) people around Tagomi not recognizing him as a high-status person, and a sudden prevalence of huge exhaust-belching…

Glad to see that an actual scene from the novel, and an important one, appears this season. But in the novel, Tagomi's crossing over to a San Francisco made ugly by the Embarcadero Freeway (which was new in 1962 in our world, and has since been torn down) comes near the end of his part in the story, and has special…

empathylouis - You realize, don't you, that your ideas are directly from unrelated '60s PKD novels? Giving knowledge to an earlier self is something done by (among others) David Lantano in The Penultimate Truth and by Dr. Eric Sweetscent in Now Wait for Last Year; UN Secretary General Gino Molinari, the elected,…

I think you're remembering a different book. Hitler in The Man in the High Castle (the novel) is offstage and a complete invalid.

There's no such scene in the novel. But a faked scene of a destroyed large American city (Detroit?) is represented by the government as truth in a 1964 Dick novel, The Penultimate Truth - which also features faked historical documentary films and time travel.

Another example is the novella "The Doomsman" by Cyril M. Kornbluth, one of the last things he wrote before his death in 1958. (It was later retitled "Two Dooms" in a Kornbluth anthology assembled by his friend and sometime writing partner Frederik Pohl.) The protagonist, part of a team working to create the Bomb in…

C'mon, it's a long tradition in American TV writing to have a character quote a Bible verse. Even Mr. Spock did it, in "The Trouble with Tribbles": Spock says of tribbles to Dr. McCoy, "They remind me of the lilies of the field. They toil not, neither do they spin."

Incidentally, the novel had NO New York City scenes.

FYI, the only names from the book that are used unaltered in the series (per IMDB) are:

Don't know whether the series will preserve this, but in the novel his original name had been Fink, a more overtly Jewish surname; he'd changed it some years earlier, before his marriage and divorce from Juliana. (In the novel, Frank and Juliana are never in a scene together.)

In the novel, the one who eventually rises to Reichs Chancellor is Goebbels.

That was mentioned, along with other aspects of the novel's genesis, in Larry Sutin's early-1990s biography Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick. I met Sutin at a reading in Minneapolis (where I lived at the time); he's a good guy. (Pronounced "sutton" if you happen to meet him.)

Fakes are often a theme in Dick stories and novels; I wonder if the Grasshopper "documentary" movie could turn out to be a fake. In the book, of course, The Grasshopper Lies Heavy is a novel and everyone knows it - there's no question of fake versus not fake - and whether it somehow reflects "real" reality is a…

Indeed. The title during production (and it was clear why they changed it for release) was Discoland: Where the Music Never Ends.