Pop Culture Impact
Bruce Davison guest-starred in a 1995 episode of the television show The Outer Limits titled "White Light Fever" which features a visual homage to Lathe: a "tunnel of blue light" effect very similar to a special effect used near the end of the film. (An image from this sequence is featured on the cover of both the mass market paperback edition of the novel that was issued with the film's premiere, and the 2000 video/DVD release).
The novel was again adapted as a telefilm by A&E Networks in 2002, titled Lathe of Heaven. It was poorly received by critics. Le Guin herself called it "misguided and uninteresting."
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