{"product_id":"changing-planes","title":"Changing Planes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the PEN\/Malamud Award for Short Story *; A \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e';Even Le Guin's overtly cautionary tales have a delicacy that disarms resistance. . . .  Almost unbearably poignant.'\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn these ';vivid, entertaining, philosophical dispatches' (\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e), literary legend Le Guin weaves together influences as wide-reaching as Borges, \u003ci\u003eThe Little Prince, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eGulliver's Travels\u003c\/i\u003e to examine feminism, tyranny, mortality and immortality, art, and the mystery of being humannow available as a limited Olive Edition from Harper Perennial.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSita Dulip has missed her flight out of Chicago. But instead of listening to garbled announcements in the airport, she's found a method of bypassing the crowds at the desks, the nasty lunch, the whimpering children and punitive parents, and the blue plastic chairs bolted to the floor: she changes planes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChanging planesnot airplanes, of course, but entire planes of existenceenables Sita to visit societies not found on Earth. As ';Sita Dulip's Method' spreads, the narrator and her acquaintances encounter cultures where the babble of children fades over time into the silence of adults; where whole towns exist solely for holiday shopping; where personalities are ruled by rage; where genetic experiments produce less than desirable results. With ';the eye of an anthropologist and the humor of a satirist' (\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e), Le Guin takes readers on a truly universal tour, showing through the foreign and alien indelible truths about our own human society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe full set of books in the 2026 Olive Editions series include:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eGuards! Guards!\u003c\/i\u003e by Terry Pratchett\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eChanging Planes\u003c\/i\u003e by Ursula K. Le Guin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eIsland\u003c\/i\u003e by Aldous Huxley\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eAlas, Babylon\u003c\/i\u003e by Pat Frank\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe Princess Bride\u003c\/i\u003e by William Goldman\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe Hidden Palace\u003c\/i\u003e by Helene Wecker\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eHighfire\u003c\/i\u003e by Eoin Colfer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe World Wasn't Ready for You\u003c\/i\u003e by Justin Key\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57495294706037,"sku":"9780063568310","price":12.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/changing-planes","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}