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"Impossible Dreams" is a science fiction Short Story by Tim Pratt which was published in the July 2006 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction.The story concerns Pete, a film buff in his late 20s, who discovers a video store from an Alternate Universe called Impossible Dreams Video that appears for increasingly short periods of time every night. He becomes fascinated with the differences that exist between the films made in this universe and his own and finds a kindred spirit in the store's clerk Ally, who loves movies just as much as he does.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })It won the 2007 Hugo Award for Best Short Story.In 2011, an Israeli short film based on the short story, written and directed by Shir Comay, was made. The film was produced in Hebrew under the title וידאו קסם, which literally means "Magic Video-Rentals." | |
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Alternate History: Pete surmises that the atom bomb was never dropped on Hiroshima in the Alternate Universe as he finds a John Wayne World War II film about the invasion of the Japanese Home Islands which is described as "riveting historical drama" and he notices that Dr. Strangelove was never made. Furthermore, Franklin D. Roosevelt never became President as Ally fails to recognise his portrait on one of Pete's dimes. | |
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Affectionate Nickname: Ally refers to Pete as "Mr. Nickels" several times as he always pays for everything with nickels due to the monetary differences between the two universes. | |
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