Giving Away a Pair of Libriomancers
Both DAW and Del Rey UK sent me author copies of Libriomancer [Amazon | B&N | Mysterious Galaxy] this week, which is a wonderful thing. Except now I find myself with more books taking up space. I figure the best thing to do is get rid of a couple, and I was hoping y’all could help me out with that!
I’ll be heading off for vacation next week, but when I get back, I’ll give away one each of the UK edition (trade paperback) and the DAW mass market release. Crocheted Smudge will be keeping guard over the books in the meantime.
If you’re interested, leave a comment telling me where you’d go on vacation if you could go absolutely anywhere, real or imagined. Narnia, Neverland, North Dakota, it doesn’t matter.
When I get home, I’ll pick two commenters at random and mail each of them an autographed copy of the book.
Anyone can enter. One entry per person, etc, etc. I’ll grab comments off of the blog, LJ, Goodreads, and the rest of the places this thing is mirrored.
Three weeks and counting until Book Day! #SFWApro
Joshua D
July 18, 2013 @ 9:35 am
Have fun Jim!
Real: Australia, New Zealand, Ireland
Imagined: Pick a book, I’d jump in. Except probably not Westeros.
Alex H
July 18, 2013 @ 9:38 am
Recently I’ve been wanting to see Scotland and Ireland, but Lilliput has always been on my list as well.
Pam Adams
July 18, 2013 @ 9:43 am
Hmmm- I think I’d like to visit the Vorkosiverse- I hear there’s a great new hotel and spy museum on Barrayar….
Staying in the real world, I want to return to London- lots of plays and bookstores to enjoy.
I was concerned about the title of this post- wondering how those libriomancers felt about being given away.
Paul Villa
July 18, 2013 @ 9:47 am
I’d spend weeks on the Australian Gold Coast or in New Zealand.
Lauren
July 18, 2013 @ 9:47 am
I think I’d want to go to Spain and walk the El Camino de Santiago. Or visit Diagon Alley.
Michelle Wilson
July 18, 2013 @ 9:49 am
I would like to go to Egypt. I live in Scotland and the only holiday’s i get nowadays are child holidays with musical dressed up characters and kids entertainment. Egypt has some of the most beautiful quiet beaches where i could sit in silence and read for a little while and relax. Other days i could go and explore the beautiful buildings and pyramids etc there too 🙂
Robin
July 18, 2013 @ 9:58 am
An RV tour of the US to visit all the online friends I’ve never met. (Alas, the fantasy worlds I adore are all too dangerous for a wimp like me!)
Cheri Alberski
July 18, 2013 @ 9:58 am
I would love to go to the British Isles, Greece and Egypt! Probably because I am a history buff.
Know what else I love? Free books from authors I love like you!
Hope the vacation is wonderful!
Laura Wenham
July 18, 2013 @ 10:01 am
In the real world, I would love to go New Zealand, Australia, and Madagascar to see the unique animals and plants. I don’t think I would want to go to most of the fictional worlds I can think of unless I had appropriate enough levels of power in them to keep from getting squished like a bug. I would, for example, hate to be a Muggle in Harry Potter’s universe – it’s not interesting unless you are a wizard and get to see all the stuff going on in the background.
Jake L
July 18, 2013 @ 10:03 am
I would spend my vacation in Xanth. Hopefully, it would include a great guide that could show us all the pun err fun places to go to!
~impatiently waiting for Codex Born~
larainey
July 18, 2013 @ 10:06 am
I would love to tour the British Isles in the real world.
For not real I would go to Discworld and be a tourist there. But with no luggage sadly.
Nathan McB
July 18, 2013 @ 10:06 am
Real places: The British Isles, especially Ireland, and I would like to go back to New Zealand and Australia. I’d also like to go to Canada; the only time I went, I was two, and it was to Niagara Falls.
Imagined places: Without a doubt, Hyrule. And Termina, but only if the moon isn’t about to fall.
Susan
July 18, 2013 @ 10:16 am
I’d love to visit London, purely because my best friend moved there in Jan with his wife and I miss them. If I were to jump in a book to go visiting, I’d probably go to Pern, because I’d love to be a dragon rider 😀
And for all those people wanting to visit Australia, are you guys crazy? Don’t you know how many things are here that will kill you? That’s why so many of us go touring in your country!
Sandyg265
July 18, 2013 @ 10:19 am
I’d go to Australlia
AR
July 18, 2013 @ 10:22 am
Ireland. The countryside looks so pretty in TV and movies, and I’d love to visit Dublin. I’d also love to spend some time in some Latin American country, like Ecuador or Venezuela, mainly for the food and weather (in summer-ish season, not when the Gods are frowning upon said countries and the weather’s crap). Not to mention New York.
Of imaginative places I’d like to visit Lauren K. Hamilton’s Fairie (Merry Gentry series), Charlaine Harris’ Bon Temps, and of course J.R.R. Tolkien’s Shire.
Sistercoyote
July 18, 2013 @ 10:25 am
I am fascinated that in the UK he’s pulling out a laser pistol and in the US a sword.
If I could go anywhere on vacation I think I’d like to go to New Zealand.
Simon Jennings
July 18, 2013 @ 10:29 am
In the real world I’d love to go to New Zealand or cycling in the himalayas. Imagined universe, it got to be somewhere in the United Federation of Planets.
Ayla
July 18, 2013 @ 10:34 am
I’d love to visit ruins of ancient cultures like in Egypt or Peru.
And if we had the fictional option i’d totally go to Pern.
Mike
July 18, 2013 @ 10:36 am
Real: i’d go back to Alaska. It’s absolutely gorgeous there. Fantasy: Do they have tour packages for the Death Star?
Alison Marlowe
July 18, 2013 @ 10:36 am
If I could go absolutely anywhere, I’d start with a coffee-shop tour of Amsterdam, and then head to Bora Bora for a few weeks in a hammock on the beach.
Jessi
July 18, 2013 @ 10:38 am
Real: If I could have *any* vacation I wanted, I’d do a tour of the world visiting ghost towns and other abandoned human structures. I love that stuff!
Fictional: I’d take my vacation on the Starship Enterprise (NCC-1701-D). I want to play with replicators and holodecks.
Rubiee
July 18, 2013 @ 10:40 am
Japan or Ireland I think…
Somewhere less real: any of Anne Bishop or Anne McCaffrey’s worlds.
A.J.
July 18, 2013 @ 10:41 am
London is my favorite place on Earth, so I’d really like a guided tour of London Below from Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere. Assuming I could be assured of getting out alive, anyway.
Or maybe a couple of weeks wandering around Tad Williams’ Otherland would be fun. Again – assuming I can get out alive.
C in DC
July 18, 2013 @ 10:41 am
Real: Crete
Fictional: I’ve always thought it would be fun to dimension jump with Meg Murray.
Kathryn
July 18, 2013 @ 10:42 am
Well, I’ve got no chance. But I’ll try.
I’d like to go to the world Alison Croggon created for her Pellinor books. It’s such a diverse, wonderful world with a really interesting magic system, and hopefully by going there I’d find out I’m a bard and I’d never stop holidaying!
August
July 18, 2013 @ 10:43 am
I mean, it’s not really fair, is it? I mean, why go anywhere that isn’t Discworld? I know it’s a pretty terrible place but at the same time… your life would just be hilarious.
Bibliotropic
July 18, 2013 @ 10:44 am
Real: Japanese. Preferably in the spring or fall. And not to Tokyo, as most people would. Big cities freak me out. Though I might make an exception for Kyoto…
Imagined: I would SO take a trip to Valdemar. Because that place is awesome!
Bryn
July 18, 2013 @ 10:45 am
Greece. Definitely Greece in the springtime to walk the beaches of Kos again and sit under the plane tree where Hippocates sat. And eat lots of good food at tavernas, of course. 😀
Nora Fox
July 18, 2013 @ 10:52 am
Real: I would absolutely love to spend a week in Washington DC and visit as many of the Smithsonian Museum exhibits and research facilities (if they allow visitors) that I could fit in. Having never left the USA, there are so many places I’d love to visit “outside” as well: England, Germany, Italy, Greece, Jordan.. I could just go on and on. To be able to actually see the history of these places would be truly amazing.
Fictional: I often imagine being able to either travel through time and visit EVERYWHERE or being able to swim to the very depths of our oceans and seeing what’s down there. Along similar lines, being able to just “pop” over to any planet and seeing what’s there.
Yes, I’m weird 😀
Jen
July 18, 2013 @ 10:54 am
I’d go visit a friend in Kolkata. I’d travel by dragon.
Kara
July 18, 2013 @ 10:57 am
I have always wanted to go see gorillas in the wild. When I was little, I wanted to be Dian Fossey when I grew up.
Aimee Luu
July 18, 2013 @ 10:59 am
real: BALI!! and Thailand 🙂
Fictional: lots of places but top three: Pern (they have dragons!), Narnia, Terre D’Ange.
Risa
July 18, 2013 @ 10:59 am
OMG yay vacation!
Real: Reunion Island (despite recent shark attack)
Imagined: I have ALWAYS wanted to see Earthsea, for real. 🙂
Danny Adams
July 18, 2013 @ 11:05 am
The Library of Alexandria before Caesar accidentally burned it (if he did). Sigh.
H Lynnea Johnson
July 18, 2013 @ 11:06 am
Honestly, right now if I were to pick a vacation spot, it would be some cabin up in Alaska, where it’s cool and I can spend time alone with my books and my crochet. That and some music (and some books on CD) would be paradise.
Most fantasy places always seemed kind of dangerous to me. But I think I’d like to visit The Shire, or maybe some of Merecedes Lackey’s 500 Kingdoms.
Cate Garagan
July 18, 2013 @ 11:08 am
I think I would go back to Italy, but I would bring my husband this time.
Martin
July 18, 2013 @ 11:09 am
Right now i would like to go on business trip to the Matrix and make some adjustments at PRISM ;-).
On the leisure side i would like visit the world before the first men wandered upon it.
Aspen
July 18, 2013 @ 11:10 am
Have a wonderful time on your trip!
As for places I myself would love to visit–
Real: Vancouver, BC; Scotland; or maybe just spend a few days hiking the California Coastal Trail.
Imagined: This is harder, because there are so many places! I think perhaps Guy Gavriel Kay’s Fionavar, Elizabeth Moon’s kingdom of Lyonya, or the Star Empire of Manticore and its ally Grayson in David Weber’s Honorverse.
Xina
July 18, 2013 @ 11:11 am
In any dimension? Xenas Greece … and pray that she’ll protect me. And I always wanted to visit the Inkas. 🙂
Angela Highland (Angela Korra'ti)
July 18, 2013 @ 11:12 am
Ooo! In!
Real: Joliette in Quebec and St. John’s in Newfoundland, for another back-to-back round of awesome music festivals
Real + requires SFnal assistance to get to: Given access to the TARDIS, I’d TOTALLY get the Doctor to take me to any 1950’s-era Elvis concert. 😀
Fictional: See previous. Because if I have access to the TARDIS, I can get to pretty much anywhere in the Doctor Who universe!
Niko
July 18, 2013 @ 11:22 am
Real: the Museum of Natural History in London. I think I could spend the rest of my life in that one building. With maybe a few trips to the Brotosh Library.
Fictional: that library planet from Doctor Who. So many books…
Becca
July 18, 2013 @ 11:22 am
The fictional Norway of Sophie’s World!
Rachel A Olson
July 18, 2013 @ 11:25 am
OH EM GEE! I have been wanting a copy of Libriomancer for FOREVER!
If I could go anywhere on vacation, I would go to Greece. My mother always asks why I’ve picked the poorest country in the world for a vacation spot. My answer is simply, because it’s beautiful.
Good luck to all participants! Much love <3
Stephanie
July 18, 2013 @ 11:32 am
PERN. Absolutely. I want to check of “ride a dragon” and “get a pet dragon” from my bucket list so much I can taste it.
Lise Andreasen
July 18, 2013 @ 11:37 am
Dream vacation spot. USA. I’m way not tired of visiting yet. Seeing New York in reality was great.
Dawn Betts-Green
July 18, 2013 @ 11:37 am
real: a tour of the weird places in the US, largest ball of yarn, etc. and a rour of author gravesites!
imagined: Hogwarts, the world in Worldsoul, Gotham, or Discworld
Cris
July 18, 2013 @ 11:39 am
Pretty much all the imaginary places I know of that seem awesome are also exceedingly dangerous, if the death/injury rates in the books set there are anything to go by. They’re interesting, but not *that* interesting.
So I’m going to vote for Tasmania in summer.
Ivana Broner
July 18, 2013 @ 11:45 am
I would go to a world filled with no pollution (I’ve always wondered what that would be like) and dolphins (so I could swim and play with them in crystal clear water).
Wendy
July 18, 2013 @ 11:54 am
I’d love to take a ride on the Voyager 1 space probe, see all the things that it sees. I’d listen to the golden record while looking at stars.
Ed Woychowsky
July 18, 2013 @ 12:01 pm
It’s more of a when then a where, someplace in North America around 50,000 years ago. No long lines, plenty of wild life to see and no need to make reservations. It will also give me the chance to do two things that I’ve always wanted to do.
The first is to bring back a few Passenger Pigeons, just to mess with people’s heads. The second is to get a Giant Ground Sloth to chase me, I’ve always wanted to run through a field yelling, “Run, there’s a sloth chasing me!”. It would be a You Tube hit. Alas.
Joseph
July 18, 2013 @ 12:04 pm
Oh, man, anywhere? Only one option: Tranquility Base, the Moon!
Patti L.
July 18, 2013 @ 12:14 pm
I’d like to go to a WorldCon that took place in Washington DC so I could see Library of Congress & Smithsonian. Might drop a few “dear politician, get real” notes off as well.
Thank you for the giveaway.
Paul Baughman
July 18, 2013 @ 12:17 pm
Hey! My copy has him pulling out the sword. Now I need the one with him pulling out the blaster!
Real: Scotland/Ireland, also Australia/NZ
Slightly less real: Korwar (Andre Norton’s Catseye) or the Plexis Supermarket (Julie Czerneda’s Trade Pact Universe)
Talia
July 18, 2013 @ 12:23 pm
Regency England. I’d love to see the London Season – but only for a vacation. No need to experience the dirt, grime, and medical conditions!
Tiffany Thordal
July 18, 2013 @ 12:26 pm
I would choose Ireland or Scotland. The beauty of the land and culture almost combines reality WITH fiction. 🙂
rustifer
July 18, 2013 @ 12:40 pm
When my wife and I were in college, we took a “tour” of Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and England, in about 2 weeks. It was whirlwind, and we saw a lot of what we saw from a bus. Bus to a new city, stay overnight, bus to new location in the morning. We’d love to go back, but this time we’d like to go to Germany and stay in one place for the entire two weeks.
Or perhaps Mars, as in the Edgar Rice Burroughs series 🙂
Liari
July 18, 2013 @ 12:44 pm
I have always wanted to go to Australia, even when I’m not having a terrible, horrible, no good very bad day. I have ALSO always wanted to visit Andre Norton’s Witch world, the world of Eet and Murdock, of Hosteen Storm (who bears NO RESEMBLENCE to the film/tv version of the Beastmaster, RAWR.), the Elvenbane world, and the slightly more obscure world of Mark of the Cat and really just every world she ever wrote, which is probably about as good for my health as Australia, where everything wants to kill you. The heart wants what the heart wants!
Drolefille
July 18, 2013 @ 12:46 pm
If have to go with Tortall right now. I just finished the Beka Cooper series and it seems like the fantasy world where I would be the least likely to end up dead.
Heather Hernandez
July 18, 2013 @ 12:46 pm
Real: Paris–I’ve never been! So many writers walked those streets! Someday. I’m saving my pennies.
Imagined: The Discworld and/or Middle Earth. I’d like to think that I would enjoy diving into Ankh-Morpork, but I’m probably more suited to Lancre, and would be lucky to visit Nanny Ogg–I’d even pitch in with the daughters-in-law on the housework! If I could figure out how to visit the Discworld, then I could figure out how to visit Middle Earth, I’m sure, and I think I’d like to visit Bree. The Shire is probably the place that suits me the most, but I’d like to get to know some of the other folks!
Mels
July 18, 2013 @ 12:49 pm
So first I was like “duh, beach” and then you said “anywhere” and I’m like “tropical beach with lots of beer” and then you said “real or imagined” my brain popped out of my head, smacked me in the face and started shouting “GO VISIT THE DOCTOR IN THE TARDIS HE WILL TAKE YOU THROUGH ALL OF TIME AND SPACE!”
so there you go. some tropical space beach with beer and the Doctor.
Jennifer Baughman
July 18, 2013 @ 12:53 pm
Real: The British Isles, Amsterdam, Prague, Vienna, and probably Rome. Places drenched in history.
Fictional: ch’Rihan, Terre d’Ange, Barrayar, Babylon 5 (with a side trip to Minbar), and Chalion (have to pay my respects to the Bastard, who has been meddling way too much in my life lately).
Ashlea
July 18, 2013 @ 12:54 pm
I’d like to go to Egypt someday, if I can get the funds together and it becomes politically stable enough for me to feel safe.
For make believe, I’d like to visit Middle Earth.
Sarah MacQueen
July 18, 2013 @ 12:55 pm
I’d really love to visit Machu Picchu. I’ve been fascinated with the Incas since we studied them in 7th grade.
Allison
July 18, 2013 @ 12:55 pm
Hogwarts! In real life, Ireland.
Carina
July 18, 2013 @ 1:00 pm
In this heat wave? Antarctica is sounding pretty good.
Tinisha KuyKendoll
July 18, 2013 @ 1:09 pm
Real: Ireland and Australia
Fictional: Vulcan
Jessie
July 18, 2013 @ 1:11 pm
In real life, I would go to Scotland in a heartbeat!
As far as imaginary places go, it has to be Hogwarts.
Lark @ The Bookwyrm's Hoard
July 18, 2013 @ 1:39 pm
In fantasy-land: Middle-earth (post-Sauron), Hogwarts, Narnia, Valdemar, Pern, and Darkover. Not necessarily in that order. In real life: New Zealand, to see all that awesome Middle-earth scenery.
Rebe
July 18, 2013 @ 1:41 pm
Real: The Great Wall of China and Machu Picchu.
Imaginary: Definitely Hogwarts but also Atlanta in Ilona Andrews’ Kate Daniels series.
Jessica
July 18, 2013 @ 1:49 pm
Ireland and Scotland. The old castles would make me feel like I was in a fantasy land. The only two places I would love to see before I get too old and won’t travel anymore.
Tar Valon in Wheel of Time series.
Nicole Mine
July 18, 2013 @ 1:52 pm
Real- Ireland or Japan. My 2 favorite countries.
Imaginary- Just about anywhere. Westeros, Hogwarts, Tortall…I’d love to visit the worlds of all of my favorite books.
Elizabeth
July 18, 2013 @ 1:54 pm
Shaftal, from Laurie Marks’ wonderful Elemental Logic series. Horrible winters (which sounds kind of appealing in the middle of a July heat wave), but a diversity-embracing society that values cooperation and hospitality.
Robert L. Slater
July 18, 2013 @ 1:58 pm
Two vacations: Real and Irreal.
Ireland. Definitely. I’ve been twice, but only for a week at a time. I’d like to take a summer there: writing, walking, drinking, talking.
For imaginary places, I’d take a low gee oxygen-rich, predator free backwater with a cottage with a view, a short walk to the beach and no one else but my girlfriend.
Most novel settings are too scary!
Rob
Hannah Steenbock
July 18, 2013 @ 1:59 pm
Thank you for your generous offer!
I would go to Pern. That was the first world that drew me to spec fiction, and I’ve always wanted to hear a dragon in my mind. Of course, that would be up to them. But I hope I can wangle a dragon flight, with a jump between.
🙂
Ashley
July 18, 2013 @ 2:05 pm
This might be cliche, but dammit, I’d go to Hogwarts. I mean, seriously. I thought about trying to be creative or whatever, but I WANT HOGWARTS. I want to ride a broom and transfigure something and get lost in the castle and throw things at Peeves and meet weird magical creatures wandering the grounds. I want to take the secret passage from the Whomping Willow to the Shrieking Shack. I want to attend a feast and then wander down to the kitchens to thank the house elves. Want 🙁
You know what I also want? A copy of that Libriomance book. That would be flippin’ sweet.
Paul Baughman
July 18, 2013 @ 2:23 pm
Andre’s worlds are my faves too. Have you tried Julie Czerneda? She’s a worthy successor to the Lady.
Tiffany Ayers
July 18, 2013 @ 2:48 pm
I have always wanted to go to Rivendell or Lothlorien. I fell in love with them upon first reading Tolkien. A jaunt on the Tardis would be nice, too :)! But here on earth, New Zeland for obvious reasons, and the UK.
mgwa
July 18, 2013 @ 2:51 pm
England, because my son’s studying there.
Crim
July 18, 2013 @ 3:01 pm
Japan if only to once again eat the magnificent kanazawa waffle cube
LadyCheron
July 18, 2013 @ 3:09 pm
I’d love to go to Middle Earth. Not the big, magic-and-history-filled parts like Minas Tirith or Lothlorien. The small, gentle, homelike parts in the Shire and Bree. I want to have a pint in the Plough and Stars, or the Green Dragon. I want to dabble my feet in the Brandywine river. I want to stand at the Three-Farthing stone and just LOOK at the countryside. And I want to take my granddaughters with me.
Melissa Trible
July 18, 2013 @ 3:20 pm
I think I might go to either Discworld (I’m not sure what bit) or Xanth. No way I’d use my “you can go anywhere” on somewhere I could reach by… more conventional means.
Jane Nicholson
July 18, 2013 @ 3:37 pm
Christchurch, NZ before the earthquake. The public gardens in the centre of the city were magnificent.
Andi Scott
July 18, 2013 @ 3:37 pm
So many places to visit! I think I’d like to go to Costa Rica in the real world. In a book, I’d like to go to Quirm on the Discworld.
Dorian
July 18, 2013 @ 3:58 pm
Funny, this (sort of) came up elsewhere for me recently, when I made and sent a postcard from an imaginary holiday destination. So I’ll use that location again – I want to go visit Vorbarr Sultana and see the famously ugly ImpSec building, tour Vorhartung Castle, and go shopping in the Caravanserai.
Jason Stevens
July 18, 2013 @ 3:59 pm
I would have to say Antarctica (or in the context of a vacation, I suppose that would have to be an Antarctic cruise), or back to Spain, where I previously had an awesome vacation and would be more than happy to return to.
Adrian
July 18, 2013 @ 4:00 pm
Middle Earth, specifically Hobbiton or Rivendell. It’s all about the food, baby!
Teri
July 18, 2013 @ 4:09 pm
I would visit Middle Earth if I could go anywhere 🙂
Pawdua
July 18, 2013 @ 4:10 pm
Anyplace without the new kitten, I’ve already have enough holes in my body.
Cathy
July 18, 2013 @ 4:20 pm
A vacation anywhere – real or imagined –
A vacation of such scope would take me into my own mind. Carefully navigating the paths of my mind, I would avoid any and all dark, shadowed corners and take time to rest at all places of sunshine and hope. I would visit old memories that have lain untouched for uncounted years. Places to visit would include all imagined landscapes where safety and/or joy are to be found.
Miscellaneous Steve
July 18, 2013 @ 4:23 pm
I’d love to go to Hong Kong, which has the benefit of being both real and unreal. The real place, I suspect, is nothing at all like I imagine it being…and the place I’d like to go to is the one rattling around in my head (I have no other frame of reference at the moment, so that’s my default Hong Kong). Probably, I’d like the real version just as much as the fantasy Hong Kong I keep in my skull; it would be nice to find out.
Megan
July 18, 2013 @ 4:24 pm
Hmmmm, you made this super hard by extending it to fictional places.
I wouldn’t mind visiting Narnia though. I think that was the first book series I ever loved so it has a special place in my heart.
My favorite place to visit in this universe is Powell’s Books in Portland, a huge bookstore.
Sally
July 18, 2013 @ 4:43 pm
I’d like to go to Rome (and Pompeii), and back to Scotland.
The Shire and Lothlorien sound great too, or that Shore Leave planet from Star Trek if I was feeling more energetic.
Emily
July 18, 2013 @ 4:56 pm
If I could go anywhere on vacation, I would go to wherever the Tardis is parked. Then I’d march up and inform the Doctor why he needs to take me along with him as his companion. (Tenth Doctor, preferably.) And then, I really COULD go anywhere on vacation!
Amanda
July 18, 2013 @ 5:04 pm
I’d love to go Venice and Belize.
Imaginary, I’d have to for Hogwarts. Although I suppose I could return to the real world and go to Universal Studios to visit the pretend Harry Potter world.
But ooh! To get really meta, I could go to the Harry-Potter version of Venice or Belize! Even though I’m pretty sure neither of them were ever mentioned in the books, or if they were it was only a glancing mention, but still! META!
Allison
July 18, 2013 @ 5:16 pm
Space. This is one where I would probably pick going in real life over a fantasy world. Don’t get me wrong, there are some awesome sci-fi worlds to explore…but I’d love to be able to do it in this one and be a part of making sci-fi…er sci-fact. I want the chance to look down on the earth, to get a totally different perspective.
Simon
July 18, 2013 @ 5:35 pm
I’d go to the fantasy world found in Rick Cook’s Wizardry series. While it’s definitely lacking in it’s amenities, the fact that the world is setup to allow magic to function based on the principles of computer programming, right down to having a spell compiler just tickled my silly little nerd heart so much as a kid that I’m still doing that kind of tech stuff even today. Plus, who wouldn’t want to write a spell that summons an imp that looks like Mr. Clean as a basic household chore spell 🙂
Marilou
July 18, 2013 @ 5:35 pm
Scotland is next on my real wishlist. For fiction… Libriomancer world would be neat, unless I wasn’t one. Then I would be sad. Or Kim Harrison’s world for the Rachel Morgan series. Most urban fantasy, actually, as long as I could have magic. I’d hate to be a mundane in an enhanced world.
ediFanoB
July 18, 2013 @ 5:36 pm
London is my favorite town. I would like to visit Victorian London. I read a lot about the Victorian Era and now I would like to see, smell, taste, touch everything on my own.
Heather
July 18, 2013 @ 5:50 pm
Hmmm, choices, choices! I’d really like to visit Japan and Rome. Fictionally, there are too many choices– how can I chose?
Harmony
July 18, 2013 @ 6:13 pm
Real places I would love to go to: Australia, India, Phillipines, Grand Canyon, Niagra Falls, Spain, and and and and and!
Imagined places I would love to go to: I don’t know if I can answer this. Every time I read a good book I feel like I’m transported there. <3 Pretty much inside of any book.