Goodreads asked Robert G. Williscroft:

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

Robert G. Williscroft In my hard science fiction novel, "The Starchild Compact," I created a world inside Saturn's moon Iapetus, a world built by people who arrived in our solar system long ago, and who became the founders of the modern human race. In the novel, Iapetus actually is a derelict starship. I am finishing the sequel now -- "The Iapetus Federation." In this book, the Earth becomes victim to a global Jihad, and much of Earth's population finds its way to Iapetus, Mars, the colonies at L-4 and L-5, other colonies throughout the asteroids, and several moons of Jupiter and Saturn. This is the "world" I would visit, and where I would live, were it actually possible to do so. Robert Heinlein once said through his memorable character Lazarus Long that the best thing about space travel is that it makes it possible to go somewhere else. For me, that would be the world of "The Iapetus Federation."

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