Changing Planes

Stories

Ursula K Le Guin, Eric Beddows, Karen Joy Fowler

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Mariner Books
13 October 2020

Science fiction; Fantasy; Short stories; Short Stories Sci-Fi; Alternate Reality

"Winner of the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Story - A New York Times Notable Book

""A fantastical travel guide, reminiscent of Gulliver's Travels, in which the narrator visits fifteen planes and describes the people, language and customs with the eye of an anthropologist and the humor of a satirist."" --USA Today

In these ""vivid, entertaining, philosophical dispatches"" (San Francisco Chronicle), literary legend Ursula K. Le Guin weaves together influences as wide-reaching as Borges, The Little Prince,

and Gulliver's Travels to examine feminism, tyranny, mortality and immortality, art, and the meaning--and mystery--of being human.

Sita Dulip has missed her flight out of Chicago. But instead of listening to garbled announcements in the airport, she's found a method of bypassing the crowds at the desks, the nasty lunch, the whimpering children and punitive parents, and the blue plastic chairs bolted to the floor: she changes planes.

Changing planes--not airplanes, of course, but entire planes of existence--enables Sita to visit societies not found on Earth. As ""Sita Dulip's Method"" spreads, the narrator and her acquaintances encounter cultures where the babble of children fades over time into the silence of adults; where whole towns exist solely for holiday shopping; where personalities are ruled by rage; where genetic experiments produce less than desirable results. With ""the eye of an anthropologist and the humor of a satirist"" (USA Today), Le Guin takes readers on a truly universal tour, showing through the foreign and alien indelible truths about our own human society."

By: Ursula K Le Guin
Illustrated by: Eric Beddows
Introduction by: Karen Joy Fowler
Imprint: Mariner Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 201mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 227g
ISBN: 9780358380023
ISBN 10: 0358380022
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 13 October 2020
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

URSULA K. LE GUIN was born in Berkeley, California, in 1929, and died in Portland, Oregon, in 2018. She published over sixty books of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, children's literature, and translation. She was the recipient of a National Book Award, six Hugo and five Nebula awards, and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Reviews for Changing Planes: Stories

PRAISE FOR URSULA K. LE GUIN {Le Guin] is a splendid short story writer. [Her] fiction, like Borges's, finds its life in the interstices between the borders of speculative fiction and realism.--San Francisco Chronicle Book Review The people, places and emotions in Le Guin's stories are typically strange, but her careful, sudden turns toward the familiar. . . seem like revelations of what's really important or fascinating about human life.--Salon --