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The Lathe of Heaven - Paperback
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The Lathe of Heaven
$16.49
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Is this book for you?
- Feels
- Mind-bending, Thoughtful, Tense
- Kind of story
- Literary science fiction, Dystopian, Classic
- About
- Power, Identity
- Pace
- Steady
- How dark
- 2 of 5. A little dark
- Romance
- A subplot
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George Orr's dreams change reality. His psychiatrist decides to use them to fix the world.
George is afraid of his own sleep, because what he dreams becomes true, and everyone else forgets it was ever different. Dr. Haber, the ambitious therapist assigned to him, sees an opportunity to cure overpopulation, war, and racism. Each well-intentioned dream makes things worse.
One of Le Guin's sharpest novels, and a brilliant argument about power, control, and the danger of perfecting the world.
Details
- Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781668017401
Praise
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A rare and powerful synthesis of poetry and science, reason and emotion.
The New York Times
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Gracefully developed... extremely inventive... What science fiction is supposed to do.
Newsweek
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Profound. Beautifully wrought... [Le Guin's] perceptions of such matters as geopolitics, race, socialized medicine, and the patient-shrink relationship are razor sharp and more than a little cutting.
National Review
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The Lathe of Heaven reminds us of the radical power of collective imagination... the novel puts Le Guin's distinctively artful combination of psychological and sociological themes with dynamic science fiction storytelling on full display.
Boston Review
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