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Changing Planes (Gollancz S.F.)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Gollancz (2004-01-15)
ISBN: 0575075643
EAN: 9780575075641
Dewy Decimal #: 813
Paperback: 240 pages
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Customer Reviews
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A Way to beat Airport Blues
Rating  (4)
Date: 2005-04-28
1 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
Amongst the most unpleasant places on the planet must be airport departure lounges (especially American ones according to my parents...).
In this collection, Ursula Le Guin has produced a number of stories about places that could be reached from the departure lounges of the world's airports. Ms Le Guin has employed her undoubted skills in creating new worlds in order to form the backgrounds to these worlds. Unfortunately, many of the more pleasant worlds are crypto Anarchical in nature, while the ones that are unpleasant are often either capitalist or formerly capitalist. This has been a long term twitch of Ms Le Guin's for virtually the last forty years. Also, a number of stories seem to be rather too obvious pastiches on current societies and/or events.
Of course, the title is a rather obvious play on waiting for another plane and swapping between the alternative planetary planes.
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Elegant wisdom in LeGuin's latest
Rating  (5)
Date: 2004-07-14
9 out of 10 customers found this reveiw helpful
LeGuin's best book for years- and that's saying something! Very Borges-like in feel, but still characteristically Le Guin. Her usual crystalline text (I wish I could write like this!) leads one gently to worlds of of distorted reality, wisdom and ambiguity. Satire, comedy, science fiction, fantasy, social commentary and philiosophy mix in these elegant shards of transfigured reality. Now all I have to do is find how to get there from Heathrow...
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