At the TCA (Television Critics Association) press tour this week, the cast and producers of The Man in the High Castle spoke about the new Amazon series. Based on the novel by Philip K. Dick (whose stories inspired Blade Runner, Total Recall and Minority Report), the story imagines an alternate history where the Nazis and their allies won World War II, picking up in the former United States in 1962. Executive Producer/showrunner Frank Spotnitz (The X-Files) spoke about how much discussion they had about how society would have developed differently if we’d lost World War II, saying, “Obviously, we started with an alternative history that is in the novel.