Ursula Le Guin’s The Lathe of Heaven was written in 1971 as an acid with which to boil the ‘60s down into a primordial soup. It is the story of two men: the “effective dreamer” George Orr, whose dreams have the power to retroactively remake reality, and his therapist William Haber, who seems to control Orr’s power to his own ends. From page to page, rea…
