Status Updates From The Lathe of Heaven

Second reading of the book and, honestly... she has the best way of describing her characters. That Orr is gullible and that Haber can easily take advantage of him is established so cleanly, everything that follows is like a perfect fit to picture.

This is also, incidentally, the only example I know of two characters experiencing "time travel" together.

(years ago, I wrote a fic based on the woodcutter premise)