 Margaret Atwood's novel "The Blind Assassin" is interspersed with excerpts from a novel written by one of the main characters; the novel-within-a-novel itself contains a science fiction story written by one of "that" novel's characters.In Philip K. Dick's novel "The Man in the High Castle", each character comes into interaction with a book called "The Grasshopper Lies Heavy", which was written by the Man in the High Castle.As Dick's novel details a world in which the Axis Powers of World War II had succeeded in dominating the known world, the novel within the novel details an alternative to this history in which the Allies overcome the Axis and bring stability to the world – a victory which itself is quite different from our history.