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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 fo

Changing Planes

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    A Paperback / softback by Ursula K Le Guin, Eric Beddows, Karen Joy Fowler

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      Publisher Harper Perennial
      Published 13 October 2020
      ISBN-13 9780358380023
      978-0358380023
      ISBN-10 0358380022
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      Anthologies & Short Stories Science Fiction Sci-Fi Books by Ursula K Le Guin

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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 fo

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