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 SmithShe 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 DoyleA 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 ATLASWhen 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 ChabonLe 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 is one of the finest writers of science fiction in the world. Winner of many Hugo and Nebula Awards, as well as a National Book Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters; a Newberry Honor and the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement.

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