Goodreads asked Andrew Rowe:

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

Andrew Rowe The cheating answer is Sufficiently Advanced Magic, because I wrote it with that sort of concept in mind. I like the idea of a setting where anyone can earn magic and power through hard work and dedication, rather than just being born with a special quality like in most other settings.

Aside from my own works, I'd rather travel to other worlds with similar characteristics. For example, I'd be happy to move to the setting of Hunter x Hunter if I'd be able to learn to manipulate nen. (This presumes that human physiology there is compatible with ours, which it might not be.) I like the flexibility of that style of magic, and the fact that it appears to be broadly available.

Many LitRPG settings also work like this - being transported into the setting of Ascend Online would probably be pretty fun, for example, as long as I could pick my character class and level normally, and that all of the game mechanics still applied (e.g. respawns).

The method of transit is also relevant. Many isekai novels involve being transported to another world and getting a clear advantage in the process; an extreme example would be Evil God Average. I'd be interested in one of those as long as I'd also be able to acquire a similar degree of advantage to those characters.

Really, the key is finding a setting where a) I could reliably find a way to work to earn magic, and b) the setting isn't hyper-dangerous to ordinary humans.

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