Goodreads asked Lyssa deHart:

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

Lyssa deHart What a tough question! I love so many of the different places that books have led me. I am not sure that there is only one world I would want to "visit." Many of the places I have loved are at different times or places on Earth, let alone going off world.

One of the difficulties is that I enjoy being a witness/traveler, and not necessarily in the thick of the story. Example: The Martian, wow, it is a fantastic book. I would love to go to space, I would love to be a scientist on Mars, and yet I don't want to experience being left alone on Mars, having to science my way to survival. The Martian allowed me to travel to an experience and share it, rather than trapped by it.

The long and short of it is, I feel like I already travel regularly to book worlds. I want to continue to explore new stories and new lands. As to what I will do when I arrive in one of these new worlds? I will do what I always do with any book that captures my imagination, and be an observer, an explorer, and an appreciative reader of the stories that unfold.

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