Changing Planes by Ursula K Le Guin

Changing Planes by Ursula K Le Guin

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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.

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Changing Planes by Ursula K Le Guin

ARMCHAIR TRAVEL FOR THE MIND: 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 cross between Douglas Adams and Alain de Botton: a mix of satire, cynicism and humour by one of the world's best writers. It's both fiction and pop philosophy, and it's all cool!
Ursula Le Guin has won many awards, literary and genre, adult and children's, including a Newbery Honor and the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement. She has just been named a Science Fiction Grand Master.
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ISBN 13 9780575075641
ISBN 10 0575075643
Title Changing Planes
Author Ursula K Le Guin
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Orion Publishing Co
Year published 2004-01-15
Number of pages 224
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.