A big part of these creations is not the content but the presentation: the aesthetic sense of the alternate world that the map itself describes ... However, the future of this Italian corner ...

and make profitable a military base in an alternate future where we're still fighting the big one. The game imagines a world in which the Soviet Union attacks the US during World War 2 ...

are glimpsed again in the sequel's alternate universe, like ghosts of an imagined future. "I insisted to add that," says Villeneuve, "so it will really create a distance with the world." ...

But one of the deepest pleasures of alternate histories are their maps. Sometimes these allow stories to unfurl, or complement the hypothetical world of a tale being told. But in many cases ...