The Lathe Of Heaven

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 *
Le Guin neatly and eerily conveys the bad-dream civilization which is George’s everyday world * Washington Post *
The most exciting book of Le Guin’s … Easily the most fun of her novels, it’s also one of the strangest, and Le Guin seems to take joy in this * Tor.com *

Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) was a celebrated author whose body of work includes 23 novels, 12 volumes of short stories, 11 volumes of poetry, 13 children’s books, five essay collections, and four works of translation. The breadth and imagination of her work earned her six Nebula Awards, seven Hugo Awards, and SFWA’s Grand Master, along with the PEN/Malamud and many other awards. In 2014 she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and in 2016 joined the short list of authors to be published in their lifetimes by the Library of America.

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