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title: The Lathe of Heaven
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<b>Author:</b> Ursula K. Le Guin</br>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/911296020?utm_medium=api&utm_source=rss">See in goodreads</a>
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<h3>Review:</h3>
<p>I thought I had read everything by LeGuin. I somehow missed this one.<br /><br />It gets four stars because... come on, classic LeGuin.<br /><br />The story is conceptually good, and the delivery is up to her usual standards. One thing that bugged me a little was the malthusian pessimism was a bit over the top.<br /><br />The author imagines a world with seven billion people in it (like we have now!) so here's a random list of what that world is like:<br /><br />* Rampant greenhouse effect<br /><br />* Grain is so expensive and scarce there's no whiskey anymore<br /><br />* No cars because no oil<br /><br />* Portland, Oregon is an overpopulated hellhole where lawyers work out of converted parking buildings.<br /><br />* Massive famines (92% of world population!)<br /><br />* Rickets and scurvy are rampant in the US<br /><br />* Overpopulation makes everyone feel cramped all the time<br /><br />And so on and so forth</p>
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