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If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?
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It's odd -- I've been asked this sort of question a lot lately. Guess it's just something in the zeitgeist.
I still haven't come up with a great answer, though; there are too many variables. Visit a fictional book world when -- before, after, or during the story we know? What could I take with me? What could I bring back? Would I know the language, assuming it's a world where no one speaks English? Would I still need the medication I take? Would my money be good?
All that aside, right now (and you might well get a completely different answer on a day I'm in a different mood) I'd go for the world of Asimov's Lije Bailey robot mysteries, The Caves of Steel and The Naked Sun.
I still haven't come up with a great answer, though; there are too many variables. Visit a fictional book world when -- before, after, or during the story we know? What could I take with me? What could I bring back? Would I know the language, assuming it's a world where no one speaks English? Would I still need the medication I take? Would my money be good?
All that aside, right now (and you might well get a completely different answer on a day I'm in a different mood) I'd go for the world of Asimov's Lije Bailey robot mysteries, The Caves of Steel and The Naked Sun.
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