Yet his characters are fully, entirely present in their fictional landscapes.

Mr. Boyd's fictional landscapes are far too diverse in character to be classified as a single imaginative entity.

In MacLaverty's fictional landscape, it's these inconclusive "grace notes" of life - "neither one thing nor the other" - that are most enticing.

While on the overworld map, a scaled-down depiction of the game's fictional landscape, the player is allowed to navigate between locations from a top-down perspective.

Bleakly and outrageously comic, the inhabitants of Mr. Jones's fictional landscape are never less than articulate about their fates.

But readers planning to revisit their favorite fictional landscapes this summer should be forewarned that many of the old places aren't quite the same anymore.

In Mr. Trevor's fictional landscapes, the past, however remote in time, is always palpably present.

Cornfields and grizzly bears inhabit the author's fictional landscape, which stretches from Florida to the Pacific Northwest.

The game takes place in a fictional landscape of interconnected stages suspended in a dimensional space.

John Irving's fictional landscapes have proven irresistibly appealing to filmmakers, but the charm can be deceiving, even hazardous.