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Originally Posted by BenG
Her parents were the well known anthropologists Alfred and Theodora Kroeber who wrote Ishi, Last of His Tribe about the last Yahi Indian.
There was a public TV adaptation of The Lathe of Heaven around 1980. It was really good despite bad special effects, but avoid at all costs the more recent cable TV version with James Caan. It completely misses the point of the whole story. In fact it's moral seems to be the exact opposite of LeGuin's intent.
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I saw an interview with LeGuin (when the 2nd version was being announced) - she had fond memories about the early production - actually helped out with it herself - and described how they had to fake the nuclear special effects using (if I remember her words correctly) essentially melting crayons - just like those science fair crayon-powered volcanoes. They made it on a shoe-string budget - had no money for high power special effects. Which is just as well - the real special effects were cerebral.