We watched the pilot for an Amazon original called The Man in the High Tower based on Phillip K. Dick's novel of the same name. The film makers got high marks from critics for "world building." In fact I found their world building so scary, I decided to read the book instead. The novel takes place in an alternate 1962 reality in which the Germans and Japanese won the war and the U.S. is divied up with the Japanese ruling the west coast, the Germans the east coast and a neutral zone in the mid-west. Films are usually about action and books are about what goes on in characters' heads. Speaking of alternate realities, I finished the book while we were on an overnight at the Flagstaff Hut of the Maine Huts and Trails network where Melissa was doing her museum educator thing. One of my favorite writers, Paul Doiron, has maintained across five novels a version of reality in which Flagstaff Lake doesn't exist but the town of Flagstaff does. The lake was created in 1950 when they build a dam on the Dead River. What's left of the town of Flagstaff is now at the bottom of the lake.