I had not read Ursula LeGuin in a long while, and I don’t remember anything aside from Wizard of Earthsea (long ago) and Left Hand of Darkness (almost as long ago)

This book is much different — shorter and smaller in scope, although somehow tackling the huge, universal human issues that she always seems to manage to weave into her stories

The premise is very much Phildickian — a man dreams “effectively,’ whereas his dreams change reality present and past, all the way since the birth of the universe, so only he knows something has changed

A conflicted and morally ambiguous psychiatrist realizes that he’s not insane and uses hypnosis and a bit of magic technology to direct the man’s dreams to affect certain outcomes, leading to greater and greater impacts

Unlike Phil Dick, LeGuin knows how to end a story well. Satisfying and chock full of goodness in a small package — < 200 pp. Highly recommend