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Title: Changing Planes: Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin, Eric Beddows ISBN: 0-15-100971-6 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (9 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Too Good to be Read in an Airport
Comment: This book starts off with a light-hearted introduction, but quickly plunges the reader into a maze of possibilities. It is a book to be read slowly, thinking about each plane as it is presented. The best part of the book is it's concluding story, which is something like a metaphor for Le Guin's life to this point, a blur of possibilities, imaginings, and outcomes. This book is highly recommended for Le Guin fans or as an introduction to her work.
Rating: 5
Summary: Gulliver's New Travels
Comment: Waiting in airports can be interminable tedium, OR, a passage to other planes of existence, fascinating new worlds. In fact there is a whole world of such worlds, linked by a loose-knit Interplanary Agency, with Interplanary Hotels for travelers, and Rornan's Handy Planary Guide for guidance. Such is the premise for this collection of fantastic allegorical stories.
Strange stories they are, too, stories of people just a little different from ourselves, people whose foibles and fallacies are just a little different from our own. Stories of people wracked by pointless ethnic conflicts that go on for centuries; people who have ruined their worlds and destroyed their ecologies; worlds in which ancient cultures and traditions are fading away. There is a quality of wistful longing in these stories, longing for a simpler, saner world that has been lost or ruined. LeGuin's beautiful writing is complemented by the inventive, Escher-like drawings of Eric Beddows.
Author Ursula K. LeGuin is a master story-teller. These stories are easy to read, compelling, humorous, engaging, and hard to forget. They will get you to thinking and they will haunt you. I recommend this book highly. Reviewed by Louis N. Gruber
Rating: 3
Summary: Good But Not Outstanding
Comment: This is a collection of sketches based on the clever conceit that bored airplane travelers can move from tedious airports to parallel worlds (planes). Each of the stories is a sketch of some key feature of the plane being visited. Several of the stories have a bit of an allegorical flavor, some are mildly satirical, and others feature interesting psychological issues. LeGuin is an extremely talented writer and several of these stories are very enjoyable and all are worth reading. None of these stories, however, comes close to LeGuin's best work. For readers familiar with LeGuin, this is something of a disappointment. Readers new to LeGuin who find this book enjoyable should pursue the LeGuin's older collections of stories, particularly those written 20 to 30 years, such as Orsinian Tales or the Compass Rose.
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Title: The Birthday of the World : And Other Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin ISBN: 0060509066 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 04 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Wave in the Mind : Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination by URSULA K. LE GUIN ISBN: 1590300068 Publisher: Shambhala Pub. Date: 17 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Unlocking the Air : Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin ISBN: 0060928034 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 15 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was by Angelica Gorodischer, Ursula K. Le Guin ISBN: 1931520054 Publisher: Small Beer Press Pub. Date: 15 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin ISBN: 044100993X Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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