Goodreads asked Matt Harry:

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

Matt Harry This is such a wonderful question, I've been pondering it for days. There are so many book worlds I'd love to visit, be it Ancelstierre in Garth Nix's Abhorsen series, Rivendell in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, or the islands of Narnia in C.S. Lewis' The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. I even considered the pros and cons of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Sure, it's kind of creepy that everyone is split into castes and constantly mainlining Soma, but there's plenty of diverting entertainment and everyone's happy. (Well, all except for the kid from the Native American reservation and the unfulfilled writer guy. But even he gets to go live on the Isle of Man at the end.) But I suspect the place I'd be truly happiest is Lyra's Oxford in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series. Yes, there's the Magisterium to worry about, but there's also cool steampunk technology and multiverse portals to explore. And who could resist the chance to meet their own daemon?

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