Miéville tends to set his novels in fanciful places, from the vaguely steampunk realm of Bas-Lag, in "Perdido Street Station" and its two sequels, to the far-future planet of Arieka, in "Embassytown" (2011).
The movie business, and the people it attracted, made Hollywood a uniquely fanciful, sensual place.
With her earnings, she bought a tidy two-story brick house in Flushing, Queens, that she filled with fanciful knicknacks, including place mats with pictures of cherubs, and porcelain figurines of fairy tale characters.
Mr. Jackson's staff at Weta, in the meantime, has been busy redecorating the country, including placing fanciful, Weta-designed "bandages" on the fuselage of Wellington's air ambulance.
In the main, Mr. Marshall said he had tried to return the show to its original Seussian mandate: to take the audience on a fanciful ride to a place populated by familiar, tender, quirky characters.
Bayard makes brilliant application of Vidocq in this fanciful adventure, which takes place in the unsettled era of Restoration France and rekindles the rumor that Louis-Charles, the 10-year-old son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, did not die in the black tower of his fortress prison in 1795.
Instead, ribbon-cutting duties fell to Sir Philip Green, whose deep pockets bankroll a sizeable number of the more fanciful shows that take place on the London catwalks, and who therefore presides over the week in the manner of a gruff sugar daddy.
