Publication date July 2006 | Publication type magazine Originally published July 2006 Genre Science Fiction | |
Nominations Locus Award for Best Short Story Similar Tim Pratt books, Hugo Award for Best Short Story winners, Other books | ||
Impossible dreams
Impossible Dreams is a science fiction short story written in 2006 by Tim Pratt. It was first published in Asimov's Science Fiction in 2006, and subsequently republished in Pratt's 2007 collection Hart & Boot & Other Stories, and in the 2012 anthology Other Worlds Than These.
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Synopsis
Pete is a cinephile. One day, he discovers a video store containing movies that were never created. He discovers that he enters a parallel universe every time he visits the store, and becomes both frustrated and elated as he tries to watch as many of the videos as possible, while forming a bond with the store's downbeat clerk.
Reception
Impossible Dreams won the 2007 Hugo Award for Best Short Story.
Film adaptation
In 2011 a short film adaptation of Impossible Dreams has been made in Israel by Shir Comay in the Hebrew language (the Hebrew title is "וידאו קסם"). The film premiered on July 12, 2011 as part of the Jerusalem Film Festival, and won the Israeli shorts competition in the ICon festival 2011 Israeli shorts competition.