Soon, George is a pawn in Haber’s dangerous game, where the fate of humanity grows more imperiled with every waking hour.Īs relevant to our current world as it was when it won the Locus Award, Ursula Le Guin’s novel is a true classic, at once eerie and prescient, wildly entertaining and ferociously intelligent. The Lathe of Heaven (1971) is a novel from the celebrated science-fiction and fantasy writer Ursula K. William Haber, a psychiatrist who immediately understands how powerful a weapon George wields. Next, when Haber tells George to dream of a world where people stop making war and come together in peace, he wakes to find that an alien invasion has united the population of the world. Upon waking, the world he knew has become a strange, barely recognizable place, where only George has the clear memory of how it was before. In a world beset by climate instability and overpopulation, George Orr discovers that his dreams have the power to alter reality. Winner of the Nebula Award, the Hugo Award, the Locus Award, and one of the most acclaimed writers in science fiction, Ursula Le Guin’s classic novel The Lathe of Heaven imagines a world in which one man’s dreams can change all of our realities. Le Guin (Published by Amazing Stories and Scribner’s)Īs featured on Slate, for the first time in eBook edition comes a science fiction classic that is at once eerie and prescient, wildly entertaining and ferociously intelligent.
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