Goodreads asked A.R. Simmons:

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

A.R. Simmons I’ve read lots of horror, dystopian, and true-crime stories. Having a vivid imagination, I wouldn’t visit any of those worlds willingly. Instead, I’ll travel back to the London of 1898 and seek out a certain mahogany table that reflects the faces of five men sharing claret and listening as Charles Marlow spins tales of the sea, youth and life itself. I’ll sit quietly and listen as that master story-teller (surely he’s Joseph Conrad’s alter ego) transports us aboard a square-rigged mail packet on his first voyage to the East. I anticipate hearing more of his stories.

I’ll sit there silently as befits one whose closest brush with the perils and wonders of the wide sea is through vicarious adventure aboard the Pequod with Ishmael and with Richard Henry Dana as he rounds the horn on the brig Pilgrim.

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