The Lathe Of Heaven

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'Her worlds have a magic sheen . . . She moulds them into dimensions we can only just sense. She is unique. She is legend' THE TIMES

'Le Guin is a writer of phenomenal power' OBSERVER

George Orr is a mild and unremarkable man who finds the world a less than pleasant place to live: seven billion people jostle for living space and food. But George dreams dreams which do in fact change reality - and he has no means of controlling this extraordinary power.

Psychiatrist Dr William Haber offers to help. At first sceptical of George's powers, he comes to astonished belief. When he allows ambition to get the better of ethics, George finds himself caught up in a situation of alarming peril.

Critics Review

Le Guin is a writer of phenomenal power

OBSERVER

Ursula Le Guin was able to reimagine many concepts we take to be natural, shared, and unalterable – gender, utopia, creation, war, family, the city, the country – and reveal the all-too-human constructions at their center … Literature will miss her. There’s no one like her

Zadie Smith

She is unparalleled in creating fantasy peopled by finely drawn and complex characters

GUARDIAN

Le Guin is one of the singular speculative voices of our future, thanks to her knack for anticipating issues of seminal importance to society

TLS

Her worlds have a magic sheen . . . She moulds them into dimensions we can only just sense. She is unique. She is legend

THE TIMES

I’d love to sit at my desk one day and discover that I could think and write like Ursula Le Guin

Roddy Doyle

A rare and powerful synthesis of poetry and science, reason and emotion

NEW YORK TIMES

[Le Guin had] the heart of a poet who knew all too well the difference between miracle and eureka, revelation and revolution

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Le Guin’s storytelling is sharp, magisterial, funny, thought-provoking and exciting, exhibiting all that science fiction can be

EMPIRE

Ursula Le Guin is a chemist of the heart

David Mitchell, author of CLOUD ATLAS

When I read The Lathe of Heaven as a young man, my mind was boggled; now when I read it, more than twenty-five years later, it breaks my heart. Only a great work of literature can bridge – so thrillingly – that impossible span

Michael Chabon

Le Guin writes tellingly of different kinds of society . . . and of the individual’s response to them

DAILY TELEGRAPH

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