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The Lathe of Heaven
Science fiction
The Lathe of Heaven
George Orr discovers that some of his dreams alter reality, changing history for everyone except him. Psychiatrist William Haber attempts to harness this ability for supposedly beneficial reforms, but each improvement produces disturbing new consequences. The widening experiments force George to defend an imperfect world against another man's certainty about perfection. Unsettling and cerebral, this science-fiction novel suits a stormy night for readers interested in dreams, ethics, unintended consequences, and the danger of benevolent control.
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Suicide and death; psychiatric treatment and coercive medical control; drug use; war and mass-casualty disasters; racism; plague/illness; psychological distress and reality alteration.
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