The Man in the High Castle

I previously watched the TV show when it released in ~2015 and I enjoyed it quite a bit! Reading the book a couple years later I expected it to be different but not this different. The TV show leans more into sci-fi with alternative realities. The book suggests and maybe implies it with Tagomi's spiritual experience. As a result, I cannot call this book sci-fi. For alt-history though it's pretty great! I rather enjoyed the characters of Childan, Frank, Juliana, Tagomi, Wegener and Joe. I found them to be well written and interesting to see their insights. I really liked Wegener's conversation with Lotze on the rocket ultimately revealing himself to be Jewish (but maybe he was joking as he's Abwehr or maybe not). I also liked the whole in universe anxiety about who succeeds Bormann. The Japanese occupation was pretty good. I loved the whole idea of the British commandos going berserk and starting to get more violent as the war was nearing the end for the Allies. I really liked it for it's alt-history and pretty good characters. It's unfortunate it's marketed as sci-fi when it's alt-history with spiritualist influences.