Goodreads asked Paul J. Fleming:

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

Paul J. Fleming Do I have to choose one? There are so many wondrous worlds out there contained within the cover of many fine novels, from both established and emerging wordsmiths, that I find myself hard-pressed to choose...

I love the imagined 'look and feel' of Dickens novels, yet I know the gruesome reality which lies beneath that 'comfortable' veneer. I would like to journey to that era and experience life there for myself, if for no other reason than to enliven my own descriptive efforts.

Likewise the simpler times of the Railway Detective novels, or the world of Holmes & Watson. In general, the Victorian era.

As for what I would do? I would try to experience life and see how people endured the seemingly base, crude conditions when compared to our own modern lives. I would love to see my home city and how it looked, as I have often looked around at the buildings which remain from that time to try and cast my mind back.

So, not a journey to some far-flung fantastical realm but a journey into the past to actually experience the life and times. That's it really.

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