When comparing the positive reaction of the aliens in The Lathe of Heaven, to the negative reaction demonstrated in The Martian Chronicles, it creates an opposite conclusions and environments in the story. Both stories contain the theme that when humanity is lost in a higher power, their world becomes chaotic. In The Martian Chronicles, the humans lost their humanity destroying the earth and their new home in mars, likewise in The Lathe of Heaven, Haber lost his humanity, as he attempted to reconstruct the earth bringing chaos. When aliens, a symbol of chaos and a presence of disturbance intersect both of the stories, the final environment and conclusion of each situation follow opposing paths. In The Martian Chronicles, the humans after destroying
