What would you do if you found out your dreams could change the world? The kind of dreams where your aunt is a white cat, or a horse poops a mountain. Uncertain what the world would be like upon waking. How’d you handle that responsibility? 

Poetic prose, philosophical explorations, absurd moments, some psychological horror. Another book to add to the “I absolutely loved this” list. 

I’m slowly working my way through Le Guin’s bibliography and this is now towards the top of the recommendations. Le Guin’s writing is perfectly suited for science fiction, exploring what draws us into the decisions we make as individuals within a world on the verge of extreme change. At times I could not believe this book was written 1971. I hope more and more people get into and keep reading Ursula K. Le Guin. 

“That Haber could have thus got out of communication with himself was rather hard for Orr to conceive; his own mind was so resistant to such divisions that he was slow to recognize them in others. But he had learned that they existed. He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.”