The Man in the High Castle is set in the 1960s.
The Man in the High Castle . The book would later receive a two season 2015 TV adaptation also under the name , The Man in the High Castle . The Man in the High Castle (TV series) . The series is loosely based on the 1962 novel of the same name by science fiction author Philip K. Dick . Taking place in an alternate version of 1962 America , where the Axis powers won World War II and subdivided the United States into two powers , the Greater Nazi Reich and the Japanese Pacific States .