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Changing Planes

By: Ursula K. Le Guin
Narrated by: Gabrielle De Cuir
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Summary

In this collection of short stories, Sita Dulip from Cincinnati finds a method of transcending the miserable experience of flying. A mere kind of twist and a slipping bend - easier to do than to describe - takes her not to Denver, but to bizarre societies and cultures that sometimes mirror our own and sometimes open doors into the alien. Changing Planes is by turns funny, disturbing, and thought provoking.

©2003 Ursula K. Le Guin (P)2003 New Millenium Audio, 2016 Phoenix Books

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Very well read with the humour and intelligence of Le Guin’s wonderful writing. Youthful, breezy, polite & thoughtful. Highly recommend.

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Entertaining vignettes of imagined cultures. Unfortunately, the real-life parallel or moral of a story is often a bit too obvious to the point of triteness. Lovely use of language, though, and I found the performance quite captivating as well.

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