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The Lathe Of Heaven
S.F. Masterworks

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81,137 Ratings by Goodreads |
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Paperback, 192 pages
Published
UK, 1 November 2001


Ursula K. Le Guin is one of the finest writers of our time. Her books have attracted millions of devoted readers and won many awards, including the National Book Award, the Hugo and Nebula Awards and a Newbery Honor. Among her novels, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed and the six books of Earthsea have attained undisputed classic status; and her recent series, the Annals of the Western Shore, has won her the PEN Center USA Children's literature award and the Nebula Award for best novel. In 2014 Ursula Le Guin was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. She lived in Portland, Oregon, until she passed away in January 2018.



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Ursula K. Le Guin is one of the finest writers of our time. Her books have attracted millions of devoted readers and won many awards, including the National Book Award, the Hugo and Nebula Awards and a Newbery Honor. Among her novels, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed and the six books of Earthsea have attained undisputed classic status; and her recent series, the Annals of the Western Shore, has won her the PEN Center USA Children's literature award and the Nebula Award for best novel. In 2014 Ursula Le Guin was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. She lived in Portland, Oregon, until she passed away in January 2018.



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Product Details
EAN
9781857989519
ISBN
1857989511
Dimensions
12.9 x 19.8 x 1.5 centimetres (0.11 kg)

Promotional Information

No.43 in the Millennium SF Masterworks series, a library of the finest science fiction ever written. Le Guin is one of the finest writers of science fiction in the world Winner of many Hugo and Nebula Awards, as well as a National Book Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters; a Newberry Honor and the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement.

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Le Guin is one of the finest writers of science fiction in the world Winner of many Hugo and Nebula Awards, as well as a National Book Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters; a Newberry Honor and the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement

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Le Guin is a writer of phenomenal power
*OBSERVER*

Ursula Le Guin was able to reimagine many concepts we take to be natural, shared, and unalterable - gender, utopia, creation, war, family, the city, the country - and reveal the all-too-human constructions at their center ... Literature will miss her. There's no one like her
*Zadie Smith*

She is unparalleled in creating fantasy peopled by finely drawn and complex characters
*GUARDIAN*

Le Guin is one of the singular speculative voices of our future, thanks to her knack for anticipating issues of seminal importance to society
*TLS*

Her worlds have a magic sheen . . . She moulds them into dimensions we can only just sense. She is unique. She is legend
*THE TIMES*

I'd love to sit at my desk one day and discover that I could think and write like Ursula Le Guin
*Roddy Doyle*

A rare and powerful synthesis of poetry and science, reason and emotion
*NEW YORK TIMES*

[Le Guin had] the heart of a poet who knew all too well the difference between miracle and eureka, revelation and revolution
*PUBLISHERS WEEKLY*

Le Guin's storytelling is sharp, magisterial, funny, thought-provoking and exciting, exhibiting all that science fiction can be
*EMPIRE*

Ursula Le Guin is a chemist of the heart
*David Mitchell, author of CLOUD ATLAS*

When I read The Lathe of Heaven as a young man, my mind was boggled; now when I read it, more than twenty-five years later, it breaks my heart. Only a great work of literature can bridge - so thrillingly - that impossible span
*Michael Chabon*

Le Guin writes tellingly of different kinds of society . . . and of the individual's response to them
*DAILY TELEGRAPH*

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By J. on April 16, 2011
I quite liked this, which is a bit interesting as it doesn't really seem like the type of sci-fi book I would. However, it was light on the sci-fi, and seemed to be more character-driven, which is what I do prefer. I liked how Le Guin was able to portray Haber's subtle power-hungry nature, and how George, throughout it all, remains fairly passive to the events. I also liked the aliens and Heather. In some ways, this novel reminded me of Inception. Not necessarily because of the dreams, but the way Haber gets inside George's dreams and changes them. So overall, a good, quick sci-fi story, with some Inception touches.
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By Mark on May 2, 2007
"The Lathe of Heaven" is Ursula Le Guin's homage to Philip K Dick. The dreams of the main protagonist are fully realised in reality when he wakes up. A doctor takes advantage of this man's powerful ability to create his ideal world. His worlds don't turn out the way he intended and as a result the dreamer wakes up to find himself in a nightmare reality. Powerful science fiction that any fan of the genre would enjoy.
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