num_pages: 175
description: 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
language: English
title: The Lathe of Heaven
titlecomplete: The Lathe of Heaven
characters: George Orr, dreamer, Heather Lelache, lawyer, Dr. Haber, psychiatrist
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Philosophy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Classics, Novels, Fantasy, Dystopia, Audiobook
ratings_count: 70176
places: Portland, Oregon
awards: awardedAt: 63100800000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 31564800000
name: Nebula Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 63100800000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 63100800000
name: Ditmar Award
category: Best International Long Fiction
publisher: Avon Books