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The Lathe of Heaven

By: Ursula K. Le Guin
Narrated by: Adam Sims
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George Orr is 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 dreams dreams which do in fact change reality - and he has no means of controlling this extraordinary power.

Psychiatrist Dr William Haber offers to help. At first sceptical of George's powers, he comes to astonished belief. When he allows ambition to get the better of ethics, George finds himself caught up in a situation of alarming peril.

©2020 Ursula K. Le Guin (P)2020 Orion Publishing Group Hard Science Fiction Science Fiction Fiction Dream

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female authors has been my 2023 theme and ursula le guin has been an absolute treasure! pure sci fi and world building! it was a totally immersive experience!

brilliant story and performance

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One of those books I didn't want to put down. Narrator brought it to life very well, differentiating the characters' voices so you could focus on the story not the reading. Gripping escapism with an undercurrent of social commentary. I'll be thinking about this one for a while.

An excellent yarn

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It must be forty years since I first read this book and, although I have returned to others in Le Guin’s oeuvre, sometimes quite often, I hadn’t returned to this one. Can’t think why. It’s great!
Very well read.

Happy revisit

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Superb writing and perfect narration. A fascinating story filled with the wisdom of the Tau.

Fantastic

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I enjoyed very much this book by Ursula Le Guin, of whom I knew earlier only the Earthsea series. Adam Sims does a fantastic job here, giving the characters distinguished tones without overdoing it. Highly recommended.

great story excellently read out

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George Orr dreams. Well, yes, so does everyone, but some of his dreams change the waking reality not just for himself but for everyone. So terrified at the possibilities, George finds treatment with an experimental psychiatrist. As the story progresses, the pace speeds up and grows increasingly weird and intriguing idea emerge.. Great story but the character s are rather flat, two dimensional. Perhaps deamlike? Whatever - for this reason, I've scored it 4stats instead of 5.
Alan Sims performs well with clear narration and good differentiation of character voives.
A good S.F.read and highly recommended.

"It's only dreams."

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Awesome performance!
Most of the classics lose much due to the outdated performance but this was great.
The ending is more out there than i would have liked and the scifi part is mostly missing.
Ok book to read once.

A classic but more philosophical than scifi

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Fell asleep, not cos of the book. Since amazon took over the inflexible demand for a review & impossibility of easily going back to relisten to parts is really really annoying.

Annoyed

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