{"product_id":"changing-planes-stories-paperback","title":"Changing Planes: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe premise is a pun, and it's still one of her best books.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSita Dulip discovers that the particular misery of an airport delay (the boredom, the bad chair, the indigestion) can be used to slip sideways into other planes of existence entirely. The Interplanary Agency issues guidebooks. Travelers file reports.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat follows is fifteen dispatches from societies Le Guin invented to think with. A world where everyone is descended from royalty and the social calculus is unbearable. A people who never sleep. Corn genetically spliced with human DNA. An island where the residents are slowly, contentedly turning into birds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach is short, sly, and doing real philosophical work underneath the comedy, as Le Guin uses the shape of the traveler's tale to ask what a culture is and what it costs to be inside one. It's her gentlest, most playful book, and a good one to hand someone who doesn't think they like science fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Ursula K. Le Guin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e Karen Joy Fowler\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780358380023\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67967235948743,"sku":"9780358380023","price":17.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/0741\/9335\/files\/9780358380023.jpg?v=1792520342","url":"https:\/\/spineboundbooks.com\/products\/changing-planes-stories-paperback","provider":"Spinebound Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}