Goodreads asked Wm. Stage:

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

Wm. Stage The world of Norsemen in Michael Crichton's Eaters of the Dead [movie title: The 13th Warrior] really intrigues me. It takes place mostly in Scandinavia in 969 AD, a place so remote that the last population of Neanderthals is able not only to survive but to pillage and terrorize their modern counterparts. I could be one of the intrepid Vikings who battle these scary folk, hoping to vanquish them forever. My name would be Beowulf Jr. or something like that. But I wouldn't be among the casualties. No, I would live on to party beside a flaming hearth, drinking mead and scarfing down venison and wondering which slave girl I would next ravish.

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