Changing Planes

By: Ursula Le Guin

Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir

Sita Dulip has missed her flight out of Chicago. But instead of listening to garbled announcements in the airport, she discovers a method of bypassing the crowds at the desks, a nasty lunch, whimpering children, their punitive parents, and the blue plastic chairs bolted to the floor: she changes planes—literally. Sita discovers entire planes of existence and visits societies not found on Earth—bizarre societies that share similarities with Earth's cultures and sometimes open doors into the alien.

©2003 Ursula K. Le Guin (P)2003 Phoenix Books, Inc.

Heavy duty sci fi

I enjoyed several of the tales contained in this book and LeGuin writes beautifully. It was not quite what i expected and not my favorite type of sci fi... But definitely worth a read.

Interesting and unusual book

The author had a very creative premise of traveling to different planes of existence and I appreciate her ability to give the reader a feel for each of these vastly different worlds.

Lovely

I was gifted this book ahead of a recent trip by plane and loved how creative it was. The narrator is especially good.

Uneven U. K. Le Guin is still great

A few of these stories are poeticly written and moving, others are interesting thought experiments that reminded me a bit of Borges. Some are all or mostly social satire....these seemed weakest to me, though I agreed with her sentiments.

I am glad to have listened to all of them -- they are well read -- and I will listen to a few of them again.

Could not finish. I've enjoyed several of leGuinns books, but not this one!

The narrator was fine, but I found the "stories" themselves and the book to be very boring.