Planos paralelos

Sita Dulip has missed the plane. Instead of listening to the confusing messages that go out over the public address system or trying to wait in the criminal plastic chairs nailed to the ground, he discovers a method to move to parallel universes from the waiting rooms of the airports, a technique that has become so popular an interplanar travel agency. In this way, we will visit cultures with the most unusual features: a country in which the vast majority of people are of blue blood and live pending the vicissitudes of the only family of commoners, a society that is ruled by anger and violence, another where it is always Christmas and whose cities constitute a gigantic commercial center, the island of immortal beings, or a town in which genetic manipulation has caused havoc... Thus, up to a total of fifteen stories in which the author he uses imaginary worlds to review both the great themes of humanity (language, coexistence, war, the war of the sexes, the relationship with nature) and its most absurd aspects. Halfway between Jonathan Swift and Borges, Le Guin boasts a friendly and witty humor and a masterful poetic pulse when writing this philosophical fiction full of wisdom.