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4.5 stars. An excellent, often overlooked book by Le Guin, that is worht yof being mentioned in the same breath as her otehr two classics: The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed.
Nominee: Hugo Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1972)
Nominee: Nebula Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1972)
Winner: Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1972)
Nominee: Hugo Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1972)
Nominee: Nebula Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1972)
Winner: Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1972)
George Orr's dreams become reality. When his court-appointed psychologist figures this out, he starts using him to remake the world in a "better" image. Although Dr. Haber seems mostly good intentioned, striving to reduce overcrowding, pollution, and war, he refuses to recognize that George's unconscious mind accomplishes these things through random and often awful means. Overpopulation is solved through a plague that kills 6 billion people. War in the Middle East ends...because aliens threaten
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What if dreams really did come true? What kind of world would it be? As this classic science fiction story relates, "Be careful what you wish for".
George Orr (one of the most likable characters you will run across) has the ability to "effective" dream and it pushes him to the edge of his sanity. This concept was the hook for me. What if the things you dreamed about came true, but not only did they come true, it changed reality itself. I don't want to enter into spoiler territory here. Most revi ...more
George Orr (one of the most likable characters you will run across) has the ability to "effective" dream and it pushes him to the edge of his sanity. This concept was the hook for me. What if the things you dreamed about came true, but not only did they come true, it changed reality itself. I don't want to enter into spoiler territory here. Most revi ...more
OK - finished with it - there is a movie, but our library doesn't have it. Too bad - that would be interesting.
January 4th, 2k14 - I still have this on the reader. Jeff and I have been sharing it. So I've taken it off 'read' and put it back on 'current'.
Have it 'on the back burner' right now, 'cause we're reading something else, but I will get back to it.
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December 12th, 2k13 - finished the audio - a really good sci fi story, imo. Takes you back to t ...more
January 4th, 2k14 - I still have this on the reader. Jeff and I have been sharing it. So I've taken it off 'read' and put it back on 'current'.
Have it 'on the back burner' right now, 'cause we're reading something else, but I will get back to it.
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December 12th, 2k13 - finished the audio - a really good sci fi story, imo. Takes you back to t ...more
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Matt
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Feb 03, 2010
Gaijinmama
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Feb 25, 2010
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Bill
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it was amazing
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