Man in the High Castle season two is going all-in on the presence of alternate universes. The show just came back in the US, and it used alternate universes to create parallels between characters in ways you wouldn’t expect.
Season one of Man in the High Castle threw us into a gorgeously realised alternate reality where the Axis won World War II and the United States was divided into the east coast run by Nazis, the west coast run by Imperial Japan and a neutral zone between them. Since…
In Peter Tieryas’ novel The United States of Japan, the United States loses the Second World War to Japan, and finds itself split between the invading Japanese army and Nazi Germany.