A review by brussel777sprouts777
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin

4.0

For SF fans, this 1971 seminal short novel (about 175 pages) by Ursula K. Le Guin is pretty close to required reading. It is about dreams coming true (not necessarily always in a positive way), and one can judge for him/herself its influences in other work such as William Gibson's "The Sprawl Trilogy", which consists of "Neuromancer", "Count Zero" and "Mona Lisa Overdrive", Michael Chrichton's "Sphere", as well as the movies "The Matrix" and "Inception". (I am disappointed to realize that "Sphere" was not really that original. Le Guin wrote virtually the same story 16 years earlier!)