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Changing Planes: Armchair Travel for the Mind (Gollancz S.F.)

Changing Planes: Armchair Travel for the Mind (Gollancz S.F.)

by UrsulaLeGuin (Author)

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    Paperback 2005

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Synopsis

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. With a 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, 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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 224
 Edition: New Ed
 Publisher: Gollancz
Published: 13 Jan 2005
ISBN 10: 0575076232
ISBN 13: 9780575076235
Book Overview: 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 'Brings a whole new meaning to inter-planetary travel ... Le Guin continues to demonstrate her genius with gentle if caustic tales that throw the world's folly back in our faces' Jon Courtenay Grimwood in the Guardian Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea series is a classic Her Hainish cycle is one of science fiction's master works

Author Bio
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.