Thought, upon Having Submitted a Hugo Ballot

[beamjockey]

Regarding Best Dramatic Presentation, long form:

Could it come down to Rango versus Hugo for the Hugo?

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[dragonet2.livejournal.com]

Game of Thrones, Season one. that is all

[avram]

I've been wishing someone'd had the foresight to put out a science fiction/fantasy movie last year called Oscar.

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

Oscar would be a plausible title for a movie version of Have Space Suit, Will Travel, since Kip Russell names his space suit Oscar. The narrator and protagonist of another Heinlein property, Glory Road, is swordsman Oscar "Scar" Gordon, so just as the 2012 movie version of A Princess of Mars was retitled John Carter, so could Glory Road become Oscar.

Unfortunately for your fantasy, on our timeline neither of these films was released during 2011 (and who can say whether they would have been good enough to nominate for a Hugo?).

I recall seeing a 1991 farce starring Sylvester Stallone entitled Oscar, a remake of a 1967 film also entitled Oscar. But it wasn't SF, fantasy, or (as in the case of Hugo) dealing with related subjects.

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of hoping this is a musical.

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

Shall I write a review of it for April Fools?

There's a thought!

(Lem published a book of reviews of imaginary things. I used to wonder how he got enough for a whole book.)

If memory serves, Lem published more than one book of reviews of imaginary books (things?).

I think this was an imaginative shortcut for him. He'd think of a world, a character, or a situation, then imagined what a book about it would be like. It was easier to write a book review of the imaginary book than it was to write a story about it in traditional fictional form.

Take slogans on T-shirts. Some people are always thinking of slogans that would be good on a T-shirt. But rarely do they have the time and energy to create a separate T-shirt for each idea. For them, I once conceived a shirt that would be covered with Velcro, along with a set of letters backed with Velcro. Think of a slogan, and in minutes, you can be displaying it on your shirt. You could change slogans hourly. You could walk around displaying successive lines of a poem during the day. You could express a joke as soon as you thought of it. You could comment on changing political developments. (Mary Lynn Skirvin and Todd Johnson eventually made me a Velcro shirt as a birthday present!)

I kept thinking up T-shirts. Lem kept thinking up nonexistent books. It's just the way his mind worked. And a choice about the form of his fictions.

[tandw.livejournal.com]

He'd think of a world, a character, or a situation, then imagined what a book about it would be like. It was easier to write a book review of the imaginary book than it was to write a story about it in traditional fictional form.

Howard Waldrop did something like that in one of his short stories, but it was a set of three articles about a movie serial set in an alternate reality where envaznxvat ernyyl jbexrq (including the bits about how they had to rejigger the last one in a hurry after the star drowned while trout fishing).

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

I wonder if "The Adjustment Bureau" will make the final list.

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

Probably not. If it had been entitled The Adjustment Bugo, it might have had a chance.

[apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com]

There are regularly years without five worthy nominees.
I do wish No Award would win more reliably.

[netmouse.livejournal.com]

This year's "Attack the Block" would be a worthy win, but I fear too few people have seen it for the nomination to push through.