Man in the Iron Mask in the mask. It has even been suggested that he was one of the other famous contemporary prisoners being held at Pignerol at the same time as Dauger. Voltaire claimed that the prisoner was a son of Anne of Austria and Cardinal Mazarin, and therefore an illegitimate half-brother of King Louis XIV. However, the sincerity of this claim is uncertain. In his history essay "Le Masque de fer", French novelist Marcel Pagnol, supporting his theory in particular on the circumstances of King Louis XIV's birth, claims that the Man in the Iron mask was indeed a twin but born second,
The Man in the High Castle located in deep space, sees to it that nothing, absolutely nothing, can prevent Abendsen from finishing his novel.The novel eventually evolved into a new story unrelated to "The Man in the High Castle." Dick ultimately abandoned the "Albemuth" book, unpublished during his lifetime, though portions were salvaged and used for 1981's "VALIS". The full book was published in 1985, three years after Dick's death. The Man in the High Castle The Man in the High Castle (1962) is an alternate history novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. Set in 1962, fifteen years after an alternative ending to World War