A review by qalminator
Changing Planes: Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin

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.