Cover of The Lathe of Heaven

The Lathe of Heaven

George Orr is a man who discovers he has the peculiar ability to dream things into being — for better or for worse. In desperation, he consults a psychotherapist who promises to help him — but who, it soon becomes clear, has his own plans for George and his dreams.

Read more

The Lathe of Heavenis a dark vision and a warning — a fable of power uncontrolled and uncontrollable. It is a truly prescient and startling view of humanity, and the consequences of playing God.

Audience
adult
Length
short · 176 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked The Lathe of Heaven? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked The Lathe of Heaven. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Grass Shares science fiction, sci-fi fantasy, fiction
  2. Dark Eden Shares science fiction, dystopia, sci-fi fantasy
  3. Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang Shares science fiction, dystopia, sci-fi fantasy
  4. Kingdom of Cages Shares science fiction, sci-fi fantasy, dystopia

“People who read The Lathe of Heaven tend to reach for these next.”

  1. Babel-17
  2. Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
  3. Downward to the Earth
  4. The Rediscovery of Man

“If you want more of the same (aliens and first contact about psychological), start with these.”

  1. Adulthood Rites
  2. Childhood's End
  3. Imago
  4. Dawn

“If it was the science fiction that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. The Pickup Artist
  2. Too Like the Lightning
  3. Beggars in Spain
  4. Dhalgren

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. The MaddAddam Trilogy: Oryx and Crake; The Year of the Flood; MaddAddam
  2. The Storm Inside
  3. Crone's Moon
  4. The Genesis