All this puts me in mind of Christopher Guest's "Waiting for Guffman" and "Best in Show," films which satirize their subjects' obsessions and dreams only a very little through exaggeration, and very much through simply too close a focus. Watching them makes me squirm in my seat a little, 'cause it's all too clear how easily the same could be done to writing science fiction, or any of a number of my passions (which I believe is Guest's explicit intent.)