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With a new introduction by Kelly Link, the Locus Award–winning science fiction novel by legendary author Ursula K. Le Guin, set in a world where one man’s dreams rewrite the future.During a time racked by war and environmental catastrophe, George Orr discovers his dreams alter reality. George is compelled to receive treatment from Dr. William Haber, an ambitious sleep psychiatrist who quickly grasps the immense power George holds. After becoming adept at manipulating George’s dreams to reshape the world, Haber seeks the same power for himself. George—with some surprising help—must resist Haber’s attempts, which threaten to destroy reality itself.A classic of the science fiction genre, The Lathe of Heaven is prescient in its exploration of the moral risks when overwhelming power is coupled with techno-utopianism.

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Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
★★★★☆ 4.5 from 5 stars (3493 Reviews)
Langue : English
ISBN-10 : 1668017407
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I read a short story by Ursula K. Le Guin called "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" back in a college Lit class and it's stayed with me all these years later. I think of it whenever I, or someone I know, makes a Faustian bargain. I considered diving deeper into Le Guin's work but I'm not a big fan of Sci-Fi so I never did. But last year I saw that they'd reissued her 1971 novel, The Lathe of Heaven, and after reading an intriguing review I downloaded it to my Kindle. And, wow, am I glad I did.This story quite frankly blew my mind. Set towards the end of the millennium, so the future when Le Guin wrote it but the past for this reader, the novel focuses on George Orr, who discovers his dreams can literally change the past and present, and Doctor Haber, who thinks he can make the world a better place by manipulating Orr's dreams. But things quickly go awry, like when Haber suggests Orr dream of world peace, where no country would wage war on another, and Orr, in order to accomplish that, dreams up an alien invasion, thus uniting the world against one common enemy (think Independence Day.). Some of the ways Orr changes the world are comical (he eradicates racism by turning everyone the same shade of grey) while some are devastating (like the way he fixes over-population, I'll leave that out so as not to spoil everything).I often get confused when reading time travel books and this one had a similar effect, but not to a detriment. It just had me struggling to remember which world we were currently in and how George could dream his way out of it. Ultimately, I thoroughly enjoyed this book and at fewer than 200 pages I'd recommend it to anyone who isn't a "big reader" but would like something quick and interesting to sink their teeth into. The Lathe Of Heaven eBook PDF Download gratis ** spoiler alert **In 1975 Ursula K. Le Guin won both the Hugo and the Nebula for best novel for The Dispossessed. This was by no means the first time the same book had won both the Hugo and the Nebula. However, Le Guin had accomplished the same feat once before, in 1970 with The Left Hand of Darkness. As far as I knew at the time, she was the only author to have done this twice. (Arthur C. Clarke also did it, but later.) Therefore I read The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, and subsequently everything by Le Guin I could get my hands on. Thus I came to read The Lathe of Heaven. It is, I believe the first novel she wrote. It was not the first novel she published -- presumably the success of Left Hand of Darkness relieved the reluctance of some publishers.Le Guin was the apogee of a movement. At the time I read Lathe of Heaven it was still gospel among literary types that all Science Fiction was trash. Some more lenient ones only claimed that 90% of SF was trash, which led to Sturgeon's Law -- 90% of EVERYTHING is trash. (Most Fantasy, too, though The Lord of the Rings was beginning to make a dent.) Indeed, there are still an awful lot of Self-Consciously Serious Readers who believe that all SF is trash. There were F&SF authors who wanted to show that F&SF could be real literature. Le Guin was not the first of these in time (I've seen Brian Aldiss credited with that), but she was, in my opinion, the height of the movement, the author who made it difficult to dismiss all SF out of hand, and still does. (There is also, to be crass, the commercial success of F&SF in literature and on screens.)Lathe of Heaven is not Le Guin's best, but it is still very good. Recent reviews of Lathe of Heaven have a lot to say about how prescient it was. Since I read it around 1976, that had yet to appear. I liked the way it turns the "It was all just a dream" trope on its head. The point of the trope is to deny any importance to events that happen in the dream, because they aren't real.In Lathe of Heaven George Orr's dreams change reality. Psychiatrist William Haber tries to use Orr's gift to fix the world. He asks Orr to dream a dream in which there is no longer any racial strife. The result is a world in which everyone is gray-skinned and looks much the same. Then he asks Orr to dream a dream in which humans no longer fight. The result is an alien invasion that unites humanity. Haber is intensely frustrated by what he regards as Orr's incompetence. He ultimately develops the technology to confer Orr's gift upon himself. But when he tries to use it, he breaks reality.The aliens ultimately turn out to be cool, and to be familiar with the ability to dream new reality. They give Orr (I think -- it could be someone else, this is after all a 46-year-old memory for me) some advice about how to do it. They quote the Beatles song "With a Little Help from my Friends" and suggest that is the key. I remember being disappointed with that. It seemed a very pedestrian insight to reach after so strange a journey. PDF The Lathe Of Heaven pdf online Saw the movie ages ago. When I started the book I had no idea what it was about. Once I got into it, then I remembered the movie.Glad I read it, to find a lot of the psychological thoughts behind it, and the way someone, and there is always someone, who wants to be God. ePUB The Lathe Of Heaven scarica ora I've been a fan of this story since childhood. A brilliant, simple and effective premise is played out in all its glorious complexity and detail. Or and Hager are truly the yin and yang of human destiny. [PDF] Downloads The Lathe Of Heaven A holiday gift for a tween grandson who is a voracious reader, as an antidote to the safe, middle-range books assigned at school. He read it in one sitting.