The Lathe of Heaven: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
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 areThe Left Hand of  Darkness(1969),The  Dispossessed(1974), andThe 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 Heavenis 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  Heavenis 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 out of print or unavailable edition of this title.