Changing Planes is a 2003 collection of short stories by Ursula K. Le Guin.

Many of the chapters are brief vignettes or ethnographic profiles of the societies they describe.

Changing Planes won the Locus Award for best collection in 2004.

[2] The conceit of the collection, described in the first story, "Sita Dulip's Method", is based on a pun that ties the book together: that the low-level discomfort of forced occupation of an airport while changing planes can, in fact, cause one to change from one "plane" of reality to another.

[3] One scholar notes that the stories explore an underlying, unifying theme around the "inherent difficulties in translations and understanding other cultures.