Worth Reading: The Lathe of Heaven
September 2, 2008 at 9:35 am | In Books, Reviews | 1 CommentTags: Dystopia, Post-apocalypse, Psychiatrists, Science fiction, Ursula K Le Guin
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The Lathe of Heaven, Ursula K. Le Guin (1976)
Current-borne, wave-flung, tugged hugely by the whole might of ocean, the jellyfish drifts in the tidal abyss.
In a near-future decimated by climate change and overpopulation, a perfectly ordinary man discovers an extraordinary talent: whatever he dreams becomes real. His efforts to escape what he considers his curse land him in the clutches of a psychotherapist, who uses a machine of his own invention and hypnosis to control the dreams and attempt to solve the world’s problems. What results is a bizarre merging of the “real” world with the infinite worlds of dreams until the two can no longer be told apart and all worlds are on the brink of the void. This is a fascinating novel that explores the unknown power of our dreams, the dangers of playing god and the possibilities of infinite worlds.
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