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Changing Planes Mass market paperbound - 2005

by Ursula K. Le Guin

The National Book Award-winning author takes flight with this bestselling collection of speculative fiction where a woman visits fifteen otherworldly-- yet familiar--societies.


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The National Book Award-winning author takes flight with this bestselling collection of speculative fiction where a woman visits fifteen otherworldly—yet familiar—societies.

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The National Book Award-winning author takes flight with this bestselling collection of speculative fiction where a woman visits fifteen otherworldly--yet familiar--societies. Sita Dulip has missed her flight. But instead of listening to garbled announcements, she has found a method of bypassing the horrors of the airport. This method--changing planes--enables Sita to visit fifteen societies not found on Earth. She will 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... "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

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The range of the airplane-a few thousand miles, the other side of the world, coconut palms, glaciers, the poles, the Poles, a lama, a llama, etc.-is pitifully limited compared to the vast extent and variety of experience provided, to those who know how to use it, by the airport.

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  • Title Changing Planes
  • Author Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 239
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Ace Books, New York
  • Date July 26, 2005
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780441012244 / 0441012248
  • Weight 0.28 lbs (0.13 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.14 x 4.44 x 0.72 in (18.14 x 11.28 x 1.83 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Fantasy fiction, Short stories
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Media reviews

"A fantastical travel guide." —USA Today



"A master of the craft." —Neil Gaiman

About the author

Ursula K. Le Guin was born in Berkeley, California, in 1929. She was the bestselling author of the Earthsea Cycle and the Hainish Cycle, including The Left Hand of Darkness. With the awarding of the 1975 Hugo and Nebula Awards to The Dispossessed, she became the first author to win both awards twice for novels. She passed away in 2018.
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