George Orr has dreams. Sometimes he has bad dreams, but no more than anyone else. He takes drugs to keep from dreaming. Because sometimes his dreams come true.

Sometimes when he wakes up, his dream is true, and it always has been, everyone believes the 'new' reality, everyone but him. When he begins therapy with Haber, a sleep researcher, he soon realises that Haber is using his dreams to try and make the world better, but it just gets worse.

This is an outstanding novel that brings the confusion and loneliness of the main character into sharp focus for the reader. Using various points of view, it's easy to see a quiet, peaceful man being used by both his own ability and by the desires of another. Haber is one of the classic do-gooders of the world, who always seems to think he knows how to make things better, and that his own point of view is right.

The fractious nature of the story, as it jumps from one reality to another, is conveyed well enough to understand, but not so well that it becomes incomprehensible to the reader.

A beautiful work of classic speculative fiction, easily readable, over and over.