"All Le Guin's stories are...metaphors for the one human story; all her fantasy planets are this one. Le Guin is a quintessentially American writer, of the sort for whom the quest for the Peaceable Kingdom is ongoing."

In this collection of short stories, Sita Dulip from Cincinnati finds a method of transcending the miserable experience of flying. A mere kind of twist and a slipping bend, easier to do than to describe, takes her not to Denver but to bizarre societies and cultures that sometimes mirror our own and sometimes open doors into the alien. Changing Planes is by turns funny, disturbing, and thought provoking.

URSULA K. LE GUIN lives in Portland, Oregon. Winner of the National Book Award, the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the PEN/Malamud Award, she is a novelist, poet, and essayist; and she has written more than one hundred shorts stories.