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The lathe of Heaven / Ursula K. Le Guin

In Portland, Oregon, George Orr discovers his dreams can effectively alter reality. When a psychotherapist attempts to manipulate this power to reshape the world, the interventions result in increasingly unstable and unintended global consequences.

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