It was a bizarrely imagined creation, with its centerpiece a large bronze vessel surrounded by eight dragons, each holding a sphere in its mouth.
Like le Carré's George Smiley, Weaver is a richly imagined creation with a scarred psyche and a complex back story that elevates him above the status of run-of-the-mill world-weary spook.
Also noteworthy, if not quite straight nonfiction, were Isabel Greenberg's The Encyclopedia of Early Earth, a rich collection of imagined creation stories and myths, and Hand-Drying in America, and Other Stories, a collection of quite short stories in graphic form by Ben Katchor, author of Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer (1996).
Creators will get to realize their dreams if their sets are made, but they won't make any financial gain via the arrangement – the chance to see an imagined creation realized is expected to be reward enough.
But it also suggests, perhaps, that novelists and short-story writers have begun to rediscover the uses of narrative and to find new ways of making their imagined creations more relevant to our complicated moment.
While admitting that they cannot answer these philosophical questions, some theorists have committed pen to paper in attempts to imagine quantum creation mathematical rigor.
At the same time, however, Labour advances in graduate-packed wards in Norwich and Southampton will invite optimistic Labourites to imagine the creation of a new socially concerned middle-class base.
It's not far-fetched to imagine the creation of heat map models even for motion video, which could analyze what caught a viewer's eye in individual scenes; which characters are testing well; what types of objects in a scene with many strike the viewer as most interesting.
Just imagine the creation of terms such as "Bomb Holocaust".
The Frankenstein breakfast-meets-lunch, almost-too-scary-to-imagine creation is exactly what it sounds like.
In the meantime, he was content to let his military superiors imagine his creations carrying explosives or poison gas instead of passengers.
