The Lathe of Heaven

"To sleep, perchance to dream; aye, there's the rub."

George Orr, a man with the power to make dreams reality, is taken advantage of by a psychiatrist with designs on using and controlling this ability for his own purposes.

LeGuin's take on the concept of absolute power's inevitable corruption with the sci-fi slant is, as always with her, done extraordinarily well. She has a way of somehow connecting to the reader and making the story matter on so many levels (not just this, but all her books). There is also a love story mid-way through to the end, and I like how no matter how many different and skewed versions of reality that come about, it is still there on some level.

I am sure there are a lot of metaphors and veiled meanings to George's dreams and the subsequent realities he creates, but one can still very much enjoy the plot without these in mind. Highly rated for any science fiction fan.