Elizabeth Bear

If you get to have special powers when you're there, like Howl from Howl's Moving Castle, that wouldn't be so bad.

I'd probably want to portal into the world of the white space novels by Elizabeth Bear, see Ancestral Knight.

It's a future where people live almost totally in harmony with all kinds of super funky aliens.

One person had a custom pet made from the genes of a dinosaur, and that kind of tech sounds rad.