Goodreads asked Sherri Fulmer Moorer:

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

Sherri Fulmer Moorer Let’s suspend disbelief for a moment and suppose that I’m not an administrative worker, but rather, am a scientist in the near future on the eve of man’s greatest achievement: terraforming Mars. If I could travel to any fictional world, I’d go to the world of Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy. Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars tell an amazing tale of terraforming the red planet for human occupation – and the political and social concerns that follow such a quest. I realize it’s an older series, but I just reread it this past spring, and was as captivated by it as I was years ago when I first discovered these books in a secondhand bookstore near my office.

I’d love to be a scientist on this interstellar quest, especially with the longevity treatments that allows Robinson’s characters to live well into their second decade. It would be amazing to inhabit a new world and build it from scratch, first scientifically and then socially. I’d want to be on the forefront of the terraforming team as the planet evolves , and later serve in the new government to set up a new society on the world I helped to create. It would also be amazing to live long enough to serve such a wide variety of purposes, and to see things from so many different perspectives. With all of the resistance movements, it would be sure to be an amazing adventure without a dull moment, on a landscape that only exist in our imagination (because we haven’t really made it there yet).

Plus, I know that Westeros is probably pretty crowded in the imagination of others with the current season of Game of Thrones in progress, which I also love. But in pondering it, another world seems more exciting than an alternate version of the one we know – especially if you help create it, as writers love to do!

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