Publisher Description

George Orr is in most respects a mild and unremarkable man who finds the world a less than pleasant place to live: seven billion people jostle for living space and food. But George has an ability with which he can transform the world around him: for George dreams dreams which do in fact change reality. He has no way of controlling this extraordinary power, and his psychiatrist is at first sceptical. When Dr Haber sees the effects of George's power, he cannot resist using it: at first just to advance his own career, but then, gaining confidence, to try to change their overcrowded world into a more attractive place.

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The 43rd title in the Millennium SF Masterworks series is about a man who can make alternate realities happen through his dreams.

Author Biography

SALES POINTS#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 worldWinner 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

Review

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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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.

Long Description

George Orr is in most respects a mild and unremarkable man who finds the world a less than pleasant place to live: seven billion people jostle for living space and food. But George has an ability with which he can transform the world around him: for George dreams dreams which do in fact change reality. He has no way of controlling this extraordinary power, and his psychiatrist is at first sceptical. When Dr Haber sees the effects of George's power, he cannot resist using it: at first just to advance his own career, but then, gaining confidence, to try to change their overcrowded world into a more attractive place.

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Ursula Le Guin is a chemist of the heart

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Through his dreams, George Orr can make alternate realities real 'Le Guin is a writer of phenomenal power' OBSERVER

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#43 in the Millennium SF Masterworks series, a library of the finest science fiction ever written.

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