Changing Planes
Contents:
- Sita Dulip's Method
- Porridge on Islac
- The Silence of the Asonu
- Feeling at Home with the Hennebet
- The Ire of the Veksi
- Seasons of the Ansarac
- Social Dreaming of the Frin
- The Royals of Hegn
- Woeful Tales from Mahigul
- Great Joy
- Wake Island
- The Nna Mmoy Language
- The Building
- The Fliers of Gy
- The Island of the Immortals
- Confusion on Uñi
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.
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In a literary landscape often dominated by action and conquest, Ursula K. Le Guin carved quiet, radical paths—through forests of magic, across alien planets, and into the deep folds of human nature. Her stories didn’t shout; they asked, wondered, and listened. Through them, she reimagined what science fiction and fantasy could be—not just a reflection of our world, but a transformation of how we see it.
Born in 1929 to a family steeped in stories and scholarship—her father was an anthropologist, her mother a writer and the biographer of Ishi—Le Guin was raised among mythologies, cultural curiosity, and a profound respect for the power of narrative. These early influences are stitched into every book she wrote, from A Wizard of Earthsea to The Left Hand of Darkness.
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