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Changing Planes
Author: | Ursula K. Le Guin |
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Harcourt, Inc., 2003 |
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Genre: | Fantasy |
Sub-Genre Tags: | Contemporary Fantasy |
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It was Sita Dulip who discovered, whilst stuck in an airport, unable to get anywhere, how to change planes - literally. By a mere kind of a twist and a slipping bend, easier to do than describe, she could go anywhere - be anywhere - because she was already between planes ... and on the way back from her sister's wedding, she missed her plane in Chicago and found herself in Choom. The author, now armed with this knowledge and Rornan's invaluable Handy Planetary Guide - although not the Encyclopedia Planeria, as that runs to forty-four volumes - has spent many happy years exploring places as diverse as Islac and the Veksian plane. Changing Planes is an intriguing, enticing mixture of Gulliver's Travels and The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a mix of satire, cynicism and humour by one of the world's best writers.
Table of Contents
- Author's Note - essay
- Sita Dulip's Method - short story
- Porridge on Islac - short story
- The Silence of the Asonu - (1998) - short story
- Feeling at Home with the Hennebet - short story
- The Ire of the Veksi - short story
- Seasons of the Ansarac - (2002) - short story
- Social Dreaming of the Frin - (2002) - short story
- The Royals of Hegn - (2000) - short story
- Woeful Tales from Mahigul - novelette
- Great Joy - short story
- Wake Island - short story
- The Nna Mmoy Language - short story
- The Building - (2001) - short story
- The Fliers of Gy - (2000) - short story
- The Island of the Immortals - (1998) - short story
- Confusions of Uñi - short story
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