Changing Planes
Subtitle: Stories
By: Ursula K. Le Guin; illustrated by Eric Beddows.
Contributors: Eric Beddows
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harcourt
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Orlando
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780151009718
Subjects: Fantasy fiction, American; Imaginary societies; Voyages, Imaginary
First sentence: The range of the airplane—a few thousand miles, the other side of the world, coconut palms, glaciers, the poles, the Poles, a lama, a llama, etc.—is pitifully limited compared to the vast extent and variety of experience provided, to those who know how to use it, by the airport.
Description: "Missing a flight, waiting in an airport, listening to garbled announcements - who doesn't hate that misery?" "But Sita Dulip from Cincinnati finds a method of bypassing the crowds at the desks, the long lines at the toilets, the nasty lunch, the whimpering children and punitive parents, the bookless bookstores, and the blue plastic chairs bolted to the floor." "A mere kind of twist and a slipping bend, easier to do than to describe, takes her not to Denver but to Strupsirts, a picturesque region of waterspouts and volcanoes, or to Djeyo where she can stay for two nights in a small hotel with a balcony overlooking the amber Sea of Somue. This new discovery - changing planes - enables Sita to visit bizarre societies and cultures that sometimes mirror our own and sometimes open doors into the alien."--Jacket.
Table of contents: title: Author's Note
pagenum: vii; title: Sita Dulip's Method
pagenum: 1; title: Porridge on Islac
pagenum: 7; title: The Silence of the Asonu
pagenum: 19; title: Feeling at Home With the Hennebet
pagenum: 30; title: The Ire of the Veksi
pagenum: 41; title: Seasons of the Ansarac
pagenum: 52; title: Social Dreaming of the Frin
pagenum: 76; title: The Royals of Hegn
pagenum: 89; title: Woeful Tales from Mahigul
pagenum: 106; title: Great Joy
pagenum: 133; title: Wake Island
pagenum: 151; title: The Nna Mmoy Language
pagenum: 166; title: The Building
pagenum: 181; title: The Fliers of Gy
pagenum: 195; title: The Island of the Immortals
pagenum: 214; title: Confusions of Uñi
pagenum: 230