He called it a "rehash" of "Fantasy" and wrote "What self-respecting artist would have the gall to recycle the Tom Tom Club's 'Genius of Love' (the source of 'Fantasy') for a second time in four years?
The fantasy of a second-half recovery is looking increasingly doubtful.
If you do you will be wrong, and you will also help the Republicans fulfill their unthinkable fantasy of a third Bush term.
There is some poignancy here, but also something cloyingly contrived; the setting Vincent Lannoo creates has a quirky romcom unreality that makes the flourish of fantasy simply a second level of implausibility.
Gabaldon's novels, which combine historical fiction, romance and fantasy, tell the story of a second world war nurse, Claire Randall, who encounters a druid ritual on a visit to Inverness and finds herself transported back to eighteenth century Scotland.
Initially appearing in 1966, the original "Star Trek" is a utopian fantasy of the first order, a vision of the enlightened future in which whites, blacks, Asians and one poker-faced Vulcan are united by their exploratory mission ("to boldly go"), a prime directive (no intervention) and the occasional dust-up.
As the war on terror entered a second decade, the fantasy of a clean war took hold.
Thanks to such predictable resistance, the drug-induced imperial dreamscape of the Busheviks would prove a fantasy of the first order, even if, in that post-9/11 moment, it passed for bedrock (neo)realism.
That a few thousand troops could somehow reverse the present situation and ensure progress toward victory is obviously a fantasy of the first order, one that barely papers over the reality of these last years: that Washington has been losing the war in Afghanistan and will continue to do so, no matter how it fiddles with troop levels.
"The Sandman," a work of dark fantasy, has received a first printing of 100,000 copies, the biggest of any DC or Vertigo offering.
Throughout this period, Bulmer kept up his output of Dray Prescot fantasies and created a second byline, Manning Norvil, for heroic fantasies featuring Odan the Half-God.
