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    The Lathe of Heaven

    By Ursula K. Le Guin

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    For the first time in eBook edition comes a science fiction classic that is at once eerie and prescient, wildly entertaining and ferociously intelligent.  
    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.

    In a world beset by climate instability and overpopulation, George Orr discovers that his dreams have the power to alter reality. 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. He seeks counseling from Dr. William Haber, a psychiatrist who immediately understands how powerful a weapon George wields. Soon, George is a pawn in Haber’s dangerous game, where the fate of humanity grows more imperiled with every waking hour.

    As 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. 

    Editor's Note

    A dystopian classic…

    The show-stopper at 2014’s National Book Awards was Ursula K. Le Guin, who was honored for her distinguished contribution to American Letters. Discover this dystopian classic from one of the genre’s legends.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDiversion Books
    Release dateApr 22, 2014
    ISBN9781626812628
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    Ursula K. Le Guin

    Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (1929-2018) was a celebrated author whose body of work includes twenty-three novels, twelve volumes of short stories, eleven volumes of poetry, thirteen children’s books, five essay collections, and four works of translation. The breadth and imagination of her work earned her six Nebula Awards, seven Hugo Awards, and SFWA’s Grand Master, along with the PEN/Malamud and many other awards. In 2014 she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and in 2016 she joined the short list of authors to be published in their lifetimes by the Library of America.

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    • 4/5
      Great book, with a strange atmosphere and story. The subject is on "what would happen if dreams influence reality?" and is exposed in a very distorted and fluid way - perfect fit with the main subject. The story is not very complex but its evolution and play with the subject makes it interesting. The story is about the main character's ability to have dreams that change reality in uncontrolled ways. This makes him desire to stop dreaming to avoid bad things happening. He ends up treated by a psychologist that has a machine that enhances his dream state under the doctor's influence. Then the doctor tries to fix the world - but there are always unintended consequences that makes you wonder if it was worthy. Keeping the characters somehow consistent through the changing world is done very well and gives the opportunity to the writer to show slightly different sides of the characters.
    • 3/5
      An interesting book to read before going to sleep. It's pretty standard science fiction, although you can totally see the Le Guin anthropological touches with the culture of the aliens and their concept of dreaming. (Perhaps influenced by "the dream-time" of Australian aboriginal people?) I like it, and I would recommend it to sci-fi and/or Le Guin fans -- it's just not particularly outstanding compared to some of her others.
    • 5/5
      A wonderful book. SciFi at its best. The plot and the characters rise above the details of the science and technology, so that after almost 50 years, the book remains readable and relevant - and enthralling. Sadly, so many other SciFi hits from that era have become anachronisms.
    • 4/5
      I love Le Guin's writing, and this short novel was just as powerful as many of her longer works. Revolving around the idea of what would come of a man who could ream things into being, the concept-driven novel is as interesting as it is packed with fear, curiosity, and wonder. Like some of Le Guin's other short novels which are driven by ideas just so much as plot or character, this is denser than some of her other works, but it's also rich and worthwhile.Recommended.
    • 4/5
      George Orr has a problem with his dreams. When he has what he terms an 'effective dream' it changes reality to match. What a cool ability to possess you might think? George's problem is that he has no control over what he dreams so he has tried all sorts of things to stop them from occurring. His current method is drugs but he's having to borrow other people's Pharmacy Card's so they're not all allocated to him and this leads to discovery and referral to a therapist as part of the Voluntary Therapeutic Treatment. Dr. William Haber, the psychiatrist Orr gets assigned to, soon realises that he can make use of this talent and improve the lot of mankind as well as helping himself along in the process. Unfortunately for Haber and the rest of the world, Orr doesn't always dream what Haber actually suggests and perceived results could have unforeseen consequences. Will the doctor find a way to get better results or perhaps even give his patient what he wants: to be cured of effective dreaming once and for all.Touching on many of the big questions such as the nature of humanity and with social and political themes abounding even touching on environmental concerns and over-population which, for 1971 when this work was first published, is quite something. The story never meanders though and stays fixed within its main tenets which means it's a fairly quick read weighing in at under 200 pages. In lesser hands this story could get terribly confusing but I'm glad to say that wasn't the case here. It's a really enjoyable read and I'll certainly be looking for more of her work having only read some of the Earthsea stories previously.
    • 4/5
      Dr. William Huber is a psychiatrist working in Portland, Oregon in a crowded, polluted, and hot future. George Orr is a man with bad dreams, and he believes the dreams affect reality. George has been using more than his allotment of pharmaceuticals, so he is sent to Obligatory Therapy under Dr. William Huber. While George is in Dr. Huber's care, Dr. Huber is able to see the world change during George's dreams. He tries to use the ability to manipulate reality. It isn't clear what is goals are, nor if or even how he should be stopped. The book was written in 1971 and set in the early 21st century. It doesn't use much technology, but explores the relationship between Dr. Huber and George Orr. It seemed to be an allegory for the silver bullet that technology is always promising. In this way, Dr. Huber keeps trying to create his version of Utopia, but cannot succeed, as he encounters problems, getting closer at each attempt. The book is sprinkled with allusions to 1984. It is clear the initial setting is strongly influenced by this work. It was fun watching for what might appear. The Lathe of Heaven is a short and fairly quick read that can be quite thought provoking.
    • 5/5
      George Orr is a mild, unassuming man, a good draftsman, a man who has recently developed a mild drug abuse problem. This is discovered in part due to the pharmacy card that every citizen is issued. He's been making unauthorized use of other people's cards. It's not a very serious offense, at least at his level of abuse. Because he admits it, and another person admits to being one of his sources, he's only sent for Voluntary Therapeutic Treatment.By chance, the psychiatrist he's assigned to is Dr. Haber.This isn't the beginning of George's nightmare. George was using the drugs to suppress his dreams, and this is vital because some small percentage of George's dreams are what he calls "effective dreams." They change the world, and not just for him. He's the only one who even remembers that the world was ever different.He tells Dr. Haber the truth, and manages to convince him. Haber promises to help, but instead begins manipulating George's dreams, in pursuit of his own ideas of a "better" world.What follows is a strange, often dark, and fascinating adventure through alternating timelines, none of which work out exactly the way Haber intended. Haber grows increasingly frustrated; George grows increasingly alarmed--even as, along the way some positive and encouraging changes do happen. Yet even the good changes are often the result of horrific events that killed millions, and George feels responsible for those deaths.He needs friends, help, a way out of the trap.George is a very good man, with seemingly great power, who wants to do as little damage as possible. Haber is not really a bad man, and he is genuinely trying to make things better--but he does have a large ego and great personal ambition, too. They and the whole world are on a roller coaster ride through an unpredictably changing world.It's a fantastic, wonderful story. Highly recommended.I bought this audiobook.
    • 5/5
      A really great, introspective journey. The world within the book changes left and right as George continues to dream beyond his control. A fabulous look into learning to adapt and to accept. Man is not mean to be god, and that is for the better. Well worth the rather short read by anyone looking for a captivating journey full of intriguing plot shifts.
    • 5/5
      What you would do if you had access to unlimited power? Would you wield it to try to solve problems like overpopulation, warfare, and pollution, or would you be wary of it, knowing the dangers of ‘playing god’ may include all sorts of unintended consequences? This is the subtext to this story of a man who finds that he changes reality through some of his dreams, and turning to a psychiatrist to help him, finds himself being exploited.Le Guin is an excellent writer, and keeps the story clean, not bringing in all sorts of additional characters or subplots, but at the same time, making us think about the human condition. There are elements of environmentalism, eastern philosophy, and man’s nature on display here. I love how we feel the angst of the world when the book was written, the fear of overpopulation, pollution, and clear references to the immorality of the Vietnam war (“He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in”) - yet at the same time, the book is ahead of its time, and timeless. As a lot of the best science fiction authors are, Le Guin is remarkably prescient about the future; to be warning of global warming because of greenhouse gasses in 1971 was impressive to me. She also envisages battery powered cars (‘batcars’), the inevitable uprising to end apartheid in South Africa, and a multitude of nations all armed with nuclear weapons.Le Guin also occasionally injects little one-liner barbs into her prose, almost as if in her stream of consciousness, and they’re wonderful (“Look out for this woman. She is dangerous.” then later “…and so now she’d have heartburn. On top of pique, umbrage, and ennui. Oh, the French diseases of the soul.”). When the doctor is frowning and standing over his patient she injects “Your God is a jealous God”, which delivers on many levels, including a criticism of the doctor and a religion.I loved how the book was set in Portland, and had a strong African-American woman character in the lawyer he enlists to help him. Most of all, I loved the blend of reality with dreams, self with universe, and the virtues of action vs. letting things be. Oh, and the turtle aliens too.Quotes:On dreams vs. reality, reminding me of Chuang-Tzu’s butterfly dream:“George Orr, pale in the flickering fluorescent glare of the train car in the infrafluvial dark, swayed as he stood holding a swaying steel handle on a strap among a thousand other souls. He felt the heaviness upon him, the weight bearing down endlessly. He thought, I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.”On the meaning of life:“Things don’t have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What’s the function of a galaxy? I don’t know if our life has a purpose and I don’t see that it matters. What does matter is that we’re a part. Like a thread in a cloth or grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass.”On nature:“She went to the door and stood half inside, half outside for a while, listening to the creek shouting and hollering eternal praise! eternal praise! It was incredible that it had kept up that tremendous noise for hundreds of years before she was even born, and would go on doing it until the mountains moved. And the strangest thing about it, now very late at night in the absolute silence of the woods, was a distant note in it, far away upstream it seemed, like the voices of children singing – very sweet, very strange.”On oneness, it reminded me a lot of Alan Watts’ writings on Buddhism:“…I’m a part of it. Not separate from it. I walk on the ground and the ground’s walked on by me, I breathe the air and change it, I am entirely interconnected with the world.”On sex, interesting comment during the ‘sexual revolution’:“The insistent permissiveness of the late twentieth century had produced fully as much sex-guilt and sex-fear in its heirs as had the insistent repressiveness of the late nineteenth century.”And this one, on attraction:“An irrelevant and poignant sensation of pleasure rose in him, like a tree that grew up and flowered all in one moment with its roots in his loins and its flowers in his mind.”On the Taoist principle of wu wei, and the uncarved block.“The infinite possibility, the unlimited and unqualified wholeness of being of the uncommitted, the nonacting, the uncarved: the being who, being nothing but himself, is everything.”I loved this one too:“Are there really people without resentment, without hate? she wondered. People who never go cross-grained to the universe? Who recognize evil, and resist evil, and yet are utterly unaffected by it?”
    • 5/5
      Ursula K LeGuin proves herself a sci-fi pro yet again, in this compact, yet full of ideas dystopia. Written in 1971 but with a plot that takes place in 1998 (and reading the book for the first time 20 years after 1998) it becomes an interesting little experiment in time. George Orr (ring any bells?) finds himself able to have certain dreams that recreate reality. Much of the book involves George Orr talking with his dream therapist, in order to figure out how to stop the dreams. But the doctor wants something different. And of course an unconscious mind doesn't take dream direction very well... The book is a lovely little weird snippet of sci-fi. It reminded me of the Terry Gilliam movie 'Brazil'. The book takes place in Portland, Oregon which is a setting you don't see every day. I wonder if LeGuin was friends with Katherine Dunn? They were both awesome book ladies who lived in Portland, so I hope.
    • 2/5
      So many of you loved this, but it was painful as hell for me. Sure, it was thought provoking, and the end was good enough that it calmed my hot nerves enough to give it a 2-star, but man oh man was there ever A LOT of useless filler, and this book is only 200 pages long!
    • 5/5
      This was amazing. Honestly have no more to say than that. Le Guin was a genius and everything she touched was golden. The way she wrote, and the things she wrote about... it's all incredible.
    • 5/5
      Amazing book, stands up there with Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed on the "books I freaking love" shelf. Both my husband and I literally gasped out loud at several points in this book. Speculative fiction at its best.
    • 5/5
      Wonderful book. Unlike anything I've read before.
    • 4/5
      Reading Bernadette Mayer first thing in the morning and Ursula Le Guin last thing at night: kind of perfect. The Lathe of Heaven is a remarkable piece of speculative fiction. Michael Chabon perhaps says it best: "When I read The Lathe of Heaven as young man, my mind was boggled; now when I read it, more than 25 years later, it breaks my heart. Only a great work of literature can bridge--so thrillingly--that impossible span." - Brian
    • 4/5
      After reading and loving another of LeGuin's books ([The Left Hand of Darkness]), I looked forward to this one. I was not disappointed. Sci-Fi - Psychology - Dreams - Dystopia = weird, very weird! I probably should not have chosen this as my bedtime book though... led to some strange dreams on my part.So, the main character dreams - and those dreams come true changing his dystopian world. Insanity, mind control, aliens, time shifts...
    • 5/5
      George Orr is a dreamer. But his dreams have material effects on the real world. After being sprung for drug abuse, he is assigned to therapy. But the therapist soon realises the power he can wield, and the therapy takes an increasingly ominous turn as the world becomes weirder. How will it end? Nobody seems to know, not George and not the therapist. Maybe the aliens George dreamed have the answer? The moral of the story seems to be "Be careful what you wish for" or perhaps it should be "Be careful what you dream". This is an engaging story with an Alice in Wonderland feel and beautifully executed. I give it 5 stars.
    • 4/5
      My suggested subtitle: LeGuin does Philip K. Dick.

      Seriously, George and Dr. William Haber could be straight out of a Dick novel. George sometimes has what he calls "effective" dreams -- dreams that alter reality, both for himself and if not for the entire universe, at least Earth and some surrounding neighborhood. Not wanting the responsibility of determining the reality of billions of other people, he self-medicates with illegally acquired drugs to avoid dreaming, which lands him sentenced to mandatory treatment by Dr. Haber. Haber, realizing George's power, of course wants to use George to re-write all of reality, over and over again, until they get it "right." Of course, the dreams are still dreams, and often use sideways dream logic to solve a problem, rather than whatever Dr. Haber had intended. At one point, George invents an alien species in order to solve world war, and even the aliens, confined to turtle suits and limited in their ability to make themselves understood cross-species, have a Dickian feel.

      Heather, however, could not have been written by Dick, nor George's feelings for her. Heather who falls for George and tries to save him. Heather whose identity -- child of a militant Black Power father and white hippie mother -- is so much a part of her that when George's dreams invent a world free of racism (everyone is grey), Heather could never have existed.

      Bleak, not what I've come to expect from LeGuin from what else I've read by her, but always interesting.
    • 5/5
      I never quite know where an Ursula Le Guin book is going to take me, but it's almost always fantastic to read, and usually a bit mind boggling. And almost always a trip into the human psyche to play with how we tick, what makes us break, and how we might respond. This one is no exception to any of these things.
    • 5/5
      Another re-read. Still just as great as the first time through.
    • 5/5
      Reading Notes:*** Major Theme: Who is right: the one who can change the world but doesn't do it or the one who can't do it himself but tries to make a better world, even if that means using other people in the worse possible way?*** Major Theme: Do we have the right to make a better world if that means making some "immoral" decisions (ex: wiping out from reality 6 billion people, even if once the reality changes, some of these people would have never existed). *** Oooooooh! This was so good, I don't even know how to explain it. Just an awesome awesome novel which is amazing given that it carries such a heavy debate.*** The main character, Orr who, for all practical purposes, is god-material since he can change the world has some very unusual characteristics in a "hero." He is seemingly weak, although it turns out that he is the strongest person in the world since he is the only one who "cannot be moved away from center," the only one who has morality, dignity, integrity, wholeness. it is ironic that he is the only person treated for mental "illness" when even his psychiatrist tells him that he is the most normal person in the world, the one who always maintain a perfect balance in a situation of duality. *** This is such an interesting story because you can't put your finger on who is the bad guy. Is that the psychiatrist who uses Orr without concern that he invades his patient privacy and crashes his free will? It seems so... But them the psychiatrist wants to fix the world (to end the wars, to solve the overpopulation problem, to eliminate the famine and racial discrimination). The lines are so blurred particularly since Orr can change the world but he is afraid to do it and think that we shouldn't meddle in the course if history.There is a lesson in each book:*** Don't make the characters tell what they think about a topic! Put them into a situation in which they will do it.What is the "time travel"/"change is time"/"discussion of time" used for?To spur the debate over whether we have the right to change the world and at what price.
    • 5/5
      This is one of the best science fiction books I've ever encountered, and just about the only INTELLIGENT science fiction i have ever seen adapted to television or movie forms.A masterwork of ontological possibilities. . .
    • 3/5
      Quite enjoyed reading this piece, Le Guin has some very interesting ideas and is always a pleasure to read.
    • 3/5
      A man's dreams change reality. In attempts at exploiting this for humanitarian objectives, there are unintended consequences. I've always found the topic of dreams fairly boring, and the plot was perhaps a bit too obviously laid out.
    • 4/5
      Great, absorbing book with a central hook concept that I liked a lot. Very odd though how it really reminded me of Philip K Dick, which is not something I would ever have expected UKlG to do: uncertain world, ever changing due to a mental ability? check. drugs? check. manipulation by hearty person who is sure of themselves? yup. Hmm, odd.
    • 4/5
      I liked this book a lot - it's a bit of Monkey's Paw, a bit of Fisherman's Wife, and a whole lot of thinking.

      George Orr is a dude. A completely normal 50th percentile all over, totally forgettable normal dude. He isn't blindingly intelligent, he doesn't have a large or strong personality, and yet he's changing the world - changing reality, over and over again. The best part is - no one knows.

      He dreams intense ('effective') dreams sometimes, and his dreams are true. And they change the world. As it is, as it ever was.

      He goes to see a shrink, who doesn't just (eventually) believe him, but tries to use George's dreams to make the world a better place (but not just for humanity, he also decides to further his own gains). George's position also gets better, though it does not make him happy. The problem is, one must be careful what one wishes for.

      George has a hard time accepting reality as *real.* He created it, right? How real is real? How much control do we really have? What will it take to make everything break? How much better, or even how do you even make things better? What will the mind accept and what will it create? This is a delightfully juicy psychological book.

    • 4/5
      Would you like to play God?Would you like to shape the world to your liking? Maybe to rid it of war, overpopulation, hunger, racial prejudice, decease? To make it into your own idea of Heaven?Well, the two main characters of The Lathe of Heaven have different opinions on this subject. George Orr, who possesses a unique ability to change the world by dreaming about, seemingly, the most mundane things, wants this power to be gone, he is sure the events should take their natural course, no matter how dire the consequences are to the humanity. His doctor, William Haber, thinks it is his responsibility to make this world a better place. He is adamant he will achieve his goal of a perfect society! And he will use Orr's ability as a means to his megalomaniac ends. Does it matter that people in his utopia are all of a battleship gray color? That sick people are euthanized? Not to Haber, as long as it is for the common good.The Lathe of Heaven was the first Le Guin's book that tickled my visualization "powers," which are very modest, to put it lightly. My imagination went in overdrive picturing our planet changing - billions of people disappearing, landscapes transforming, climate adjusting - all retroactive results of Orr's unconscious dreaming. This story would make a visually stunning movie a la Inception, only a million times better, because Le Guin explores much cooler ideas of fatalism, equanimity, and God complex.4 stars because it took so long to come up with the idea how to fix Orr's dream problem. I had the solution the moment I knew what his complaint was and I don't understand why Orr himself never thought of it. A bit of a weak plotting there.Besides this minor issue, the novel is just immensely exciting and imaginative.
    • 4/5
      This is a re-read of a book I read many years ago. I remember thinking over the past decade or so that this book had always been one of my favorites. I won't say that I was disappointed by my re-reading, because really, I wasn't. But the writing is much drier and much more "distant" than I remember it being. I didn't care about the characters at all, and I couldn't figure out why Orr wouldn't just dream his own dreams - of course, now I know it's because of the time when this novel was written - when individuals believed the medical profession/government/powers-that-be were "right", regardless. Anyway, I still LOVE the concept behind the book (wouldn't that be so cool?), but the writing of it, or the standards of the era within which it was written... not so much.Originally I gave this 5 stars. Now, as an adult, I'd give it 3.5
    • 3/5
      A good fast read. I liked the premise and the beginning/middle but then the ending it gets a little too confusing for my taste. I liked some of the philosophy behind it, though the book is driven more by characters and action (as it should).
    • 5/5
      This book was fascinating! It was super short, but so, so interesting. This is actually my second dip into Ursula K. Le Guin's work, and my favorite. The Dispossessed didn't really leave me wanting to read more of her, but this one certainly did. My mind = blown.