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| 80% Recommended by our customers. Publisher: Harcourt Catalog: Book Release date: 2003-07-01 Media: Hardcover Number of pages: 256 Ean: 9780151009718 Book Isbn: 0151009716  Tip: compare prices with similar booksAuthor:
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 Written on July 6, 2003 Summary: Another winner from Ursula You can just tell how much fun Le Guin had writing this book. Many of the stories have an irreverent tone. But many also explore serious themes in a novel way. How would you like to sprout wings and fly? Live without any need for sleep? Be immortal? Explore the downsides. But mostly, just enjoy the ride. Written on June 21, 2003 Summary: A nice read: Ursula Le Guin in an unexpected mood! Who among us has not experienced the misery of long waits at airports, trapped in a slow-moving time-warp between flights? Le Guin starts this quaint book with a horribly accurate word picture of what such a wait can be before segueing into a neat fantasy. Imagine if, just as we change airplanes on connecting flights, we could switch between different planes of existence (the pun is entirely intentional!) and discover alternate worlds? Sit back then for an enchanting ride as Le Guin lets her imagination create 16 wondrous alternate worlds which this book explores almost like a travelogue. Take the world of the Asonu, where children speak less and less as they mature, till as adults, their communication is entirely silent. The only sounds are those of nature and people going about their business - no conversation at all. (I could go for that!). Contrast that peaceful world with that of the Veksi who are always angry and quarrelsome, or the Hennbet who are either reincarnated beings or multiple personalities (or maybe both!). Even more imaginative are the long migratory cycles and courtship dances of the Ansarac (much to the disapproval of the efficient tech-specialists who try to colonize them) and the slow evolution of Mahigul. The book is not all light hearted fun however. Porridge on Islac looks at the dangers of genetic engineering. The land of Hegn, where everyone is part of the royal family and hence all attention is on the one family of commoners, neatly inverts the usual fascination for royalty, enabling Le Guin to gently skewer the monarchical concept. And Great Joy is a searing look at corporate behavioral ethics (or the lack of them). I must also credit the illustrator, Eric Beddows for some very apt images, including a couple that are startlingly reminiscent of the peerless M. C. Escher. A nice read, though very different from what one usually expects from Ursula Le Guin. (I wonder if she dreamed this one up at an airport!) |
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| Catalog | Book | Book | Book | Book | Book | Book |
| Release date | 2003-07-01 | 1997-09-24 | 2004-12-14 | 2006-04-01 | 2003-03-04 | 2005-03-15 |
| Media | Hardcover | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 256 | 320 | 320 | 300 | 384 | 384 |
| Ean | 9780151009718 | 9780802135292 | 9780060760298 | 9780152051242 | 9780060509064 | 9780060914479 |
| Book Isbn | 0151009716 | 0802135293 | 006076029X | 0152051244 | 0060509066 | 0060914475 |
| Reading level | - | - | - | Young Adult | - | - |
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