Feb-18-2012, 07:08 AM (UTC)
I have thought about this question, concerning Middle Earth. Being an engineer, and a woman, I know I would not be welcome there - Tolkien was not interested in seeing the industrial revolution in his realm. Though not quite so bad, I'd still be a fish out of water in Gernia, RotE, Westeros, Discworld, Riverside (Ellen Kushner), Earthsea, or Narnia.
As Woody Allen once said (and I paraphrase) "I would not want to live in any time period before antibiotics."
I'm so used to the division between pre-industrial fantasy (HP being a notable exception), peri-industrial steam punk, and "modern" or futuristic sci-fi, that it is hard for me to step out of that mindset and put myself into anything but sci-fi.
I don't mind stepping into the mind of a person completely unlike myself (say, a drug-impaired, mind-reading, murderous young man), but I wouldn't want to spend my life there, being someone I'm not.
As Woody Allen once said (and I paraphrase) "I would not want to live in any time period before antibiotics."
I'm so used to the division between pre-industrial fantasy (HP being a notable exception), peri-industrial steam punk, and "modern" or futuristic sci-fi, that it is hard for me to step out of that mindset and put myself into anything but sci-fi.
I don't mind stepping into the mind of a person completely unlike myself (say, a drug-impaired, mind-reading, murderous young man), but I wouldn't want to spend my life there, being someone I'm not.
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