: A story set in another world is harder to get into as the differences between what we (the readers) experience compared to what happens to people on the other world. The other answers are

A story set in another world is harder to get into as the differences between what we (the readers) experience compared to what happens to people on the other world.

The other answers are incorrect that it has to do with how good of a writer you are. What matters is how well the story you are writing connects to the reader. Plenty of fiction (mostly sci-fi) occur off earth, and plenty of those don't talk about or even mention earth. But the people, the emotions, the experiences are similar in fashion, though the environment is different.

Think of it like this: if you're writing about the Amazon river but have never been to it (like most people), it'll be a foreign environment. That doesn't mean that now it's harder to connect to...unless everything remains foreign. Because we can't connect to what we don't understand, and we don't understand what we don't know or see. So deliver something for the reader to experience, with familiarity in some fashion, and slowly expand from there.

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