by UrsulaLeGuin (Author)
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!
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Publisher: Gollancz
Published: 15 Jan 2004
ISBN 10: 0575075643
ISBN 13: 9780575075641
Book Overview: The first new stand-alone Le Guin book in many years, a cross between Douglas Adams and Alain de Botton 'All le Guin's stories are metaphors for the one human story; all her fantastic planets are this one.' Margaret Atwood 'Philosophical fiction in the manner of Jonathan Swift and Jorge Luis Borges ... she launches her imagination on the wings of a pun' NEW YORK TIMES 'She wields her pen with a moral and psychological sophistication rarely seen' Newsweek. 'Eloquent, elegant, insightful, funny, sharp, and nearly always provacative' Washington Post. Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea series continues to sell as one of the great classic cycles of children's literature. Her Hainish cycle of SF novels and short stories is one of science fiction's master works
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