Scan barcode
mikimeiko's review against another edition
4.0
Amazing small stories, so different one from another that is hard to believe they were all written by the same writer.
A book that everyone should try, even if they usually don't like scifi.
A book that everyone should try, even if they usually don't like scifi.
mikimeiko's review against another edition
4.0
Un'idea di base originalissima che fa da collante tra i racconti: in alcune situazioni particolari (come ad esempio gli aeroporti), compiendo determinati movimenti è possibile scivolare su altri piani, ovvero altri universi.
Una collezione di piccoli racconti meravigliosi, in cui la Le Guin fa sfoggia della sua incredibile fantasia.
Tra l'altro, i suoi racconti sono molto più scorrevoli dei romanzi, che personalmente non riesco a leggere.
Una collezione di piccoli racconti meravigliosi, in cui la Le Guin fa sfoggia della sua incredibile fantasia.
Tra l'altro, i suoi racconti sono molto più scorrevoli dei romanzi, che personalmente non riesco a leggere.
bechols's review against another edition
3.0
A clever premise, and some thought-provoking stories, but just didn’t resonate with me.
mariana_ag1997's review against another edition
4.0
Puntuación 4/5
Mi próxima aventura lectora fue con Ursula K le Guin, ya desde un tiempo tenía muchas ganas de leer algún libro de ella.
La introducción es genial, presenta de una forma muy innovadora una compilación de relatos en donde muestra diversos planos a los cuales se pueden llegar, pasando mediante un proceso que consiste en pasar mucho estrés en un aeropuerto, el inicio es muy original como evoca esa imaginación y la convierte en una cosa casi tangible con el título de viajes interplanares.
Una de las cosas que estoy disfrutando mucho de estos relatos es la novedad de mundos nunca antes vistos, se presenta una problemática para cada uno, se muestran las consecuencias de las malas decisiones, se plantean muchos temas como las diferentes costumbres, pensamientos, ideas y estilos de vida de una manera exquisita.
Los mundos son oníricos y tiene una forma de ser contada muy encantadora, además con lo cortos que son, dan unas historias consistentes con un punto de inicio, una ejecución y un resultado, me encanta como todo está bien formulado y sigue el mismo esquema.
En cada uno de los relatos sorprendentemente se exponen muchos estilos de vida desde las cosechas, el papel tanto de la mujer como del hombre varía, las costumbres que tenga la comunidad, definitivamente es un conjunto de relatos bien cuidado en los detalles, ya que estas características aparecen en la mayoría de los relatos y eso le da mucha consistencia.
-Conclusiones-
Excelente compilación de relatos, en sí cada uno de los relatos es consistente, original y narrado con suma maestría.
Se tratan muchas cosas desde las costumbres y tradiciones, estilos de vida, culturas, ideas, entre otras. De una serie de sociedades que mediante una parodia de la humanidad presentan problemáticas y cuestiones humanas.
Con un ambiente plasmado de forma maravillosa la autora muestra sin lugar a dudas una gran cantidad de lugares fuera de este plano, con paisajes y escenarios memorables. Además si la construcción del mundo, cultural, social, etc. es tan maravilloso que me quedo corta tratando de describir las historias de trasfondo.
La protagonista constante de esta historia me hizo sentir muy identificada en el último relato y disfruté mucho de su sentido del humor.
En fin, ¿volvería a leer alguno de estos relatos? Es un sí definitivo. ¿Leería alguna obra más de esta autora? Si, tengo mucha curiosidad cómo serán sus otras obras.
¿Qué piensa la Mariana del futuro?
Estoy muy encantada de salir de mi zona de confort para descubrir joyitas como esta.
Mi próxima aventura lectora fue con Ursula K le Guin, ya desde un tiempo tenía muchas ganas de leer algún libro de ella.
La introducción es genial, presenta de una forma muy innovadora una compilación de relatos en donde muestra diversos planos a los cuales se pueden llegar, pasando mediante un proceso que consiste en pasar mucho estrés en un aeropuerto, el inicio es muy original como evoca esa imaginación y la convierte en una cosa casi tangible con el título de viajes interplanares.
Una de las cosas que estoy disfrutando mucho de estos relatos es la novedad de mundos nunca antes vistos, se presenta una problemática para cada uno, se muestran las consecuencias de las malas decisiones, se plantean muchos temas como las diferentes costumbres, pensamientos, ideas y estilos de vida de una manera exquisita.
Los mundos son oníricos y tiene una forma de ser contada muy encantadora, además con lo cortos que son, dan unas historias consistentes con un punto de inicio, una ejecución y un resultado, me encanta como todo está bien formulado y sigue el mismo esquema.
En cada uno de los relatos sorprendentemente se exponen muchos estilos de vida desde las cosechas, el papel tanto de la mujer como del hombre varía, las costumbres que tenga la comunidad, definitivamente es un conjunto de relatos bien cuidado en los detalles, ya que estas características aparecen en la mayoría de los relatos y eso le da mucha consistencia.
-Conclusiones-
Excelente compilación de relatos, en sí cada uno de los relatos es consistente, original y narrado con suma maestría.
Se tratan muchas cosas desde las costumbres y tradiciones, estilos de vida, culturas, ideas, entre otras. De una serie de sociedades que mediante una parodia de la humanidad presentan problemáticas y cuestiones humanas.
Con un ambiente plasmado de forma maravillosa la autora muestra sin lugar a dudas una gran cantidad de lugares fuera de este plano, con paisajes y escenarios memorables. Además si la construcción del mundo, cultural, social, etc. es tan maravilloso que me quedo corta tratando de describir las historias de trasfondo.
La protagonista constante de esta historia me hizo sentir muy identificada en el último relato y disfruté mucho de su sentido del humor.
En fin, ¿volvería a leer alguno de estos relatos? Es un sí definitivo. ¿Leería alguna obra más de esta autora? Si, tengo mucha curiosidad cómo serán sus otras obras.
¿Qué piensa la Mariana del futuro?
Estoy muy encantada de salir de mi zona de confort para descubrir joyitas como esta.
fransbooks's review against another edition
adventurous
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
4.5
lmsmango's review against another edition
3.0
What a great collection of stories to start the year with. Ursula Le Guin often credits her father, anthropologist Alfred Louis Kroeber, as being her source of inspiration ("His field of science was a human one, and that’s really good luck for a novelist"). That inspiration is on full display here, with each chapter as detailed as the last.
To say they are stories may be disingenuous, because what it is, really, is a collection of fictional anthropological accounts of several worlds. In that respect, there is almost a profound detachment to the writing, which works well with the book's assumption that one visits the world as if a foreigner, a visitor.
I found myself most drawn to the accounts that feel closest to our world. In "Great Joy", one need not wait for the calendar to celebrate holidays, as every island is packaged differently, while the islands' natives are imprisoned for the Great Joy Corporation's profits. In "The Fliers of Gy", people who develop wings can choose to lead a life of flight or to clip their wings, the former risking death, the latter conformity. "The Royals of Hegn" deals with a population filled with only royalty save for one commoner family, whom they look to for entertainment—because, for them, struggle is a spectacle. "Seasons of the Ansarac" talks of a planet with very long Earth years, whose nomadic, migratory way of life is threatened by the entrance of industry.
My favorite entry has to be "The Island of the Immortals", which operates on the basic premise of dystopic stories: that immortality comes at a price. That idea is subverted here, showing how endless suffering results in lumps of ruin in one world, and yet priceless to another. The term "Blood diamond" here takes a very dark turn.
The frame story is by itself weak, and for all its examination of societal differences, it could have benefited from more interactions between the unnamed narrator and its society's members to highlight those very differences. Otherwise, it just imitates the clinical, and at times even exploitative, flair of scholarly writing. Regardless, the stories all have merit by their own right, a testament to the author's penchant for worldbuilding.
To say they are stories may be disingenuous, because what it is, really, is a collection of fictional anthropological accounts of several worlds. In that respect, there is almost a profound detachment to the writing, which works well with the book's assumption that one visits the world as if a foreigner, a visitor.
I found myself most drawn to the accounts that feel closest to our world. In "Great Joy", one need not wait for the calendar to celebrate holidays, as every island is packaged differently, while the islands' natives are imprisoned for the Great Joy Corporation's profits. In "The Fliers of Gy", people who develop wings can choose to lead a life of flight or to clip their wings, the former risking death, the latter conformity. "The Royals of Hegn" deals with a population filled with only royalty save for one commoner family, whom they look to for entertainment—because, for them, struggle is a spectacle. "Seasons of the Ansarac" talks of a planet with very long Earth years, whose nomadic, migratory way of life is threatened by the entrance of industry.
My favorite entry has to be "The Island of the Immortals", which operates on the basic premise of dystopic stories: that immortality comes at a price. That idea is subverted here, showing how endless suffering results in lumps of ruin in one world, and yet priceless to another. The term "Blood diamond" here takes a very dark turn.
The frame story is by itself weak, and for all its examination of societal differences, it could have benefited from more interactions between the unnamed narrator and its society's members to highlight those very differences. Otherwise, it just imitates the clinical, and at times even exploitative, flair of scholarly writing. Regardless, the stories all have merit by their own right, a testament to the author's penchant for worldbuilding.
dude_watchin_with_the_brontes's review against another edition
3.0
A little bit like Gulliver's Travel's, but more range of emotions and less of the scatological stuff.
feralgreen's review against another edition
4.0
The intro makes me want to go looking for a "complete list" of LeGuin's work.
guniz's review against another edition
5.0
Beautiful. For the lovers of anthropology and science fiction. Each plane, in itself, feels like it could have turned into a novel.
qalminator's review against another edition
4.0
Enjoyable, but odd. First, the prose is utterly beautiful, which isn't a surprise coming from Le Guin. This falls somewhere between a novel and a story collection, as there is a common narrator for each story (except where the narrator relates someone else's POV), but each segment is kept distinct from each other segment. Each focuses on a different plane that can be visited, if you know the trick, by shifting planes while waiting at an airport. So, while you're waiting to change planes, you can visit another plane (I presume the pun is deliberate).
Usually I have a tough time finishing story collections, but this one was holding my interest better than any of the novels I'm currently reading, so I kept turning back to it instead of them. It's a study of what it means to be human, by looking at reflections of ourselves in not-quite or sometimes not-at-all human cultures.
Recommended.
Usually I have a tough time finishing story collections, but this one was holding my interest better than any of the novels I'm currently reading, so I kept turning back to it instead of them. It's a study of what it means to be human, by looking at reflections of ourselves in not-quite or sometimes not-at-all human cultures.
Recommended.