Goodreads asked Leonide Martin:

If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?

Leonide Martin I would time travel to the ancient Maya Classic Period, 250-900 CE in southern Mexico and Guatemala. While there, I'd visit many cities and meet the lords and commoners, learn about their daily lives, and watch them in action. Maybe I could get a few puzzles solves: how did they build pyramids over 200 feet high made of huge limestone blocks, without forklifts and hydraulic machines (or maybe they had them?) How did they know so much about astronomy; the Precession of the Equinoxes, how to predict solar and lunar eclipses, motions of planets, calculation of the solar year so accurately? And their mysterious relationships with different dimensions of existence, their shamanic visionary abilities, their richly evocative creation myths, their advanced knowledge of unimaginable antiquity? They could probably tell an "earth history" that would astound us.

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