Dream, When You’re Feeling Blue
The Lathe of Heaven
By Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula Le Guin’s 1971 The Lathe of Heaven is a standalone science fiction novel.
Despite the distractions of a polluted, overpopulated world forever on the brink of final war, Dr. William Haber does his best to diligently perform his duties. The task at hand: to assist seemingly unremarkable drug abuser George Orr deal with his crippling fear of dreams, Haber plans to use hypnotherapy and his own invention, the marvellous dream-inducing Augmenter.
Haber soon learns that Orr is anything but unremarkable. Orr is a living wish machine, a genie in a bottle that Haber is uniquely qualified to open.