"The Lathe of Heaven"

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Title"The Lathe of Heaven"
Year for Search1971
AuthorsLe Guin, Ursula K[roeber](1929-2018)
Secondary TitleAmazing Stories
Volume / Edition44.6 - 45.1
Pagination6 -61; 6-65, 121-23
Date PublishedMarch - May 1971
ISSN Number0002-6891
KeywordsFemale author, US author
Annotation

Begins with a dystopian background stressing pollution and overpopulation. Search for eutopia driven by a power-hungry psychiatrist controlling a man whose dreams can change reality.
Additional Publishers

Repub. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971. Rpt. New York: Avon, 1973. U.K. ed. London: Gollancz, 1972. 
Info Notes

A film of the novel was made initially for WNET TV directed by David Loxton (1943-89) and Fred Barzyk and released in 1980, with a slightly revised version released in 2002. A play of the novel adapted and directed by Edward Einhorn was performed by the Untitled Theater Company No. 61 at the 3LD Art & Technology Center, New York in June 2012. A review can be found in The New York Review of Science Fiction 24.11 (287) (July 2012): 14-16.
Holding Institutions

Merril
Author Note

Female author (1929-2018)
Full Text

1971 Le Guin, Ursula K[roeber] (1929-2018). “The Lathe of Heaven.” Amazing Stories 44.6 - 45.1 (March - May 1971): 6 -61; 6-65, 121-23. Repub. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1971. Rpt. New York: Avon, 1973. U.K. ed. London: Gollancz, 1972. A film of the novel was made initially for WNET TV directed by David Loxton (1943-89) and Fred Barzyk and released in 1980, with a slightly revised version released in 2002. A play of the novel adapted and directed by Edward Einhorn was performed by the Untitled Theater Company No. 61 at the 3LD Art & Technology Center, New York in June 2012. A review can be found in The New York Review of Science Fiction 24.11 (287) (July 2012): 14-16. Merril

Begins with a dystopian background stressing pollution and overpopulation. There is a search for eutopia driven by a power-hungry psychiatrist controlling a man whose dreams can change reality. Female author.