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Changing Planes by Ursula K. Le Guin
5.0

I'd walked into this expecting a novel, based off the back-of-book blurb. What I received was a travel guide which far exceeded my expectations, a format that I wouldn't trade for the world. With each chapter dedicated to a different aspect of a different plane, Changing Planes was rife with thoughtful allegory and intentionally gentle satire. Each examination of a different species took time to explore consequences or the aftermath thereof -- and oftentimes the behaviors which thinly-veiled human ones, things we practice every day -- but only once with condemnation.

I haven't enjoyed a book as much as I did Changing Planes in what feels like ages. This was loaned to me, but I'll absolutely dig up a copy for my own bookcase.