Changing Planes
A New Collection of Short Stories
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Illustrated
by Eric Beddows
Reviews
"Ursula K. Le Guin has been at the top of her form for so long that it's easy to forget just how 'top' that form is...
Ursula Le Guin has long delighted in sending her characters into cultures whose unexpected conventions challenge everything the newcomers holds to be self-evident. In the delicate, occasionally disastrous interplay that follows first contact, both host and visitor are irrevocably changed, and likewise the reader, who experiences events from both perspectives. Despite the brevity of each interplanetary visit in Changing Planes, the armchair traveler will return home with images and insights that promise to last longer than most snapshots and duty-free purchases."
— Susanna J. Sturgis
[complete review at Women's Review of Books]
The Bloomsbury Review
"These 16 stories are distilled Le Guin, a series
of spare, conceptual parables strung with witty and deadly serious satire.
In her impeccable prose, without rancor but also without illusion, Le Guin
casts a clear eye on this world of ours, and delineates all the heinous and
dazzling things it is and was and may become."
— The Bloomsbury Review
Table of Contents
* Previously published stories
Harcourt
July 2003
ISBN: 0151009716
Ace
August 2005
0441012248
Looking Glass Bookstore, Portland, OR, has signed copies of UKL's books, including Changing Planes. [Offsite link]
Copyright © 2002 by Ursula K. Le Guin
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