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by Ursula K. Le Guin (Author)
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Ursula K. Le Guin is one of science fiction's greatest writers. She is also an acclaimed author of powerful and perceptive nonfiction, fantasy, and literary fiction. She has received many honors, including six Nebula and five Hugo Awards, the National Book Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Newbery, the Pilgrim, the Tiptree, and citations by the American Library Association. She has written over a dozen highly regarded novels and story collections. Her SF masterworks are The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), The Dispossessed (1974), and The Lathe of Heaven (1971).

George Orr has dreams that come true--dreams that change reality. He dreams that the aunt who is sexually harassing him is killed in a car crash, and wakes to find that she died in a wreck six weeks ago, in another part of the country. But a far darker dream drives George into the care of a psychotherapist--a dream researcher who doesn't share George's ambivalence about altering reality.

The Lathe of Heaven is set in the sort of worlds that one would associate with Philip K. Dick, but Ms. Le Guin's treatment of the material, her plot and characterization and concerns, are more akin to the humanistic, ethically engaged, psychologically nuanced fiction of Theodore Sturgeon. The Lathe of Heaven is an insightful and chilling examination of total power, of war and injustice and other age-old problems, of changing the world, of playing God. --Cynthia Ward --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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This book illustrates why Le Guin has become one of the most distinctive voices in American science fiction. The premise here is that some poor slob discovers that whatever he dreams becomes reality when he awakes. He's seized upon by a megalomaniacal shrink who uses him to make the world a better place. Only things keep going wrong. Susan Omallie does a mediocre job with this material. Towards the end, one occasionally hears vocal fatigue in the form of dry mouth. There's a line or two that somebody forgot to edit out. Still, the material is strong enough to carry her through all nine sides. Y.R. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Le Guin has it all...again!, Mar 26 2004
By R. J. Smith "Eddie Girl" (Way The Heck Up North, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lathe of Heaven (Paperback)
I read Lathe of Heaven after my first Le Guin book, Left Hand Of Darkness (phenomonal exam of the value of truth, friendship and a nail biting adventure story at the end!), unsure of what to expect. WHat I found was that again LeGuin couples facinating sci-fi premise a la PK Dick, Heinlein and Card, with engaging, thought provoking social commentary. I confess, I felt the start was a little slow (hense the absent 5th star) and it took some perserverence, but the effort pays off -- in the end I re-read the first hundred pages or so and really dug it (also did this with Left Hand and found it beneficial).
Some of the social issues that interested me the most as incorporated in Lathe:
1. Science for the sake of science -- just cause we can, should we? And the value of scientific gain over an individual's life and freedoms -- is it ever worth it? (this has been done before, granted, but was beautifully executed in the relationship between doctor and patient)
2. Self faith/trust/confidence
3. Outsider/Loner phenomonon...haven't we ALL been THERE before.
I confess, many of these things I got from the mood I was in when reading, my roomate picked up on a few others (the surest sign of a great book -- you could write whole papers..And I did for my Fem. Sci-Fi class)
...and about the end, no spoiler here I promise, the roomie didn't like it ("where the [heck] did that come from")-- I did ("Yup, makes total sense") You be the judge.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Is George Orr Ishi? Is Dr. Haber Alfred Kroeber?, Mar 21 2004
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Ishi awakens the last survivor of his race, the Yahi, and begins a journey of change. Along the way, noble minded scientists try to help him but, in the end, use him for their own ends. One of those scientists was Alfred Kroeber, renowned anthropologist and father of Ursula Kroeber Le Guin. The destruction of one reality and the birth of a new one on a personal scale may be associated with a new type of human yet to be discovered by anthropologists - Alienated Man. George Orr's affliction and Ishi's journey represent societal disaffection of Western man. The mass of men lead lives of quiet and estranged desperation...and dream.
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4.0 out of 5 stars travel with your mind, Jan 23 2004
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Great book!! This is the first Ursula K. Le Guin novel I've read, and I think it's fantastic. I'm not much of a sci-fi fan, but Lathe of Heaven avoids the lamer tendencies of the genre--very well written, 3-d characters, fascinating story. If you're from Portland, Oregon you'll enjoy the ever-changing Portland setting quite a bit. This book really got inside my head--highly recommended.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A modern Frankenstein and more
George Orr has a problem, at certain select time, he dreams dreams that change the very nature of reality itself. Placed in the care of psychologist Dr. Read more
Published on Nov 25 2003 by Kurt A. Johnson

5.0 out of 5 stars What is reality...?
Is it fixed series of events, a string of cause and effect? Or can it be changed at a whim, changed by nothing but a dream of a sleeping man? George Orr is that man. Read more
Published on July 15 2003 by Michael Valdivielso

5.0 out of 5 stars The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number
Ursula K. Le Guin's The Lathe of Heaven was first published in 1971, but its message is still relevant today. Read more
Published on Feb 5 2003 by Paul S. White

2.0 out of 5 stars Dreams and reality in an amazing story.
A haunting mythic story of a man whose dreams can create an alternate reality. He struggles with a over-ambitious medical researcher over control of his brain, to remain in touch... Read more
Published on Dec 12 2002 by Hovig J. Heghinian

5.0 out of 5 stars Quietly, unceasingly brilliant.
"Lathe of Heaven" is the first novel I've read by Le Guin, and I wasn't dissapointed.
In it, the author fashions a quiet but chilling world where nothing truly exists, and we... Read more
Published on Nov 30 2002 by David Reynolds

3.0 out of 5 stars Kind of a letdown...
Now I know why I stopped reading Science Fiction at age 15. I'd always heard & read about how great this book was & having seen both film adaptations, which were criticized as... Read more
Published on Oct 31 2002 by inframan

1.0 out of 5 stars Boo, boo, and more boos.
It isn't always easy to follow the author's train of thought. Then you have to get past all of her pschoprattle and philosophical nonsense. Taoism my foot. Read more
Published on Oct 12 2002

5.0 out of 5 stars An entry course to Taoism
As a person who learned a little Taoism growing up, I find the book a stunningly authentic and spot-on Taoist-themed story told in the sci-fi format. Read more
Published on Sep 13 2002 by moon6pence

4.0 out of 5 stars "You can't run away from your own Dreams."
Set in Portland, Oregon in the future--several different futures, actually--this sci fi story pits man's mind against his innate moral sense of responsibility for the rest of... Read more
Published on Jun 26 2002 by Plume45

5.0 out of 5 stars The Lathe of Heaven
I have read and reread this book since 1982. It is one of the classic SF of all time and especially from the sixties era. Read more
Published on May 6 2002 by James G Kurth

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