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Canopus in Argos: Archives is a sequence of five science fiction novels by Nobel laureate author Doris Lessing, which portray a number of societies at different stages of development, over a great period of time.
The Sirian Experiments is a 1980 science fiction novel by Doris Lessing.It is the third book in her five-book Canopus in Argos series [1] and continues the story of Earth's evolution, which has been manipulated from the beginning by advanced extraterrestrial civilisations. [2]
Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta (often shortened to Shikasta) is a 1979 science fiction novel by Doris Lessing, and is the first book in her five-book Canopus in Argos series. It was first published in the United States in December 1980 by Alfred A. Knopf , and in the United Kingdom in November 1979 by Jonathan Cape .
Lessing called the Canopus in Argos series "space fiction", but The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five is generally referred to as feminist science fiction. The novel is influenced by spiritual and mystical themes in Sufism , an Islamic belief system in which Lessing had taken an interest in the mid-1960s.
The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 is a 1982 science fiction novel by Doris Lessing.It is the fourth book in her five-book Canopus in Argos series [1] and relates the fate of a planet, under the care of the benevolent galactic empire Canopus, that is plunged into an ice age. [2]
(Documents Relating to) The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire is a 1983 science fiction novel by Doris Lessing.It is the fifth book in her five-book Canopus in Argos series [1] and comprises a set of documents that describe the final days of the Volyen Empire, located at the edge of our galaxy and under the influence of three other galactic empires, the benevolent Canopus, the tyrannical ...
Lessing was born Doris May Tayler in Kermanshah, Iran, on 22 October 1919, to Captain Alfred Tayler and Emily Maude Tayler (née McVeagh), both British subjects. [7] Her father, who had lost a leg during his service in World War I, met his future wife, a nurse, at the Royal Free Hospital in London where he was recovering from his amputation.
The people of Planet 8 are peaceful and content, until one of the Canopean Agents arrives and tells them to prepare for an impending ice age. The embattled population fights courageously in the face of certain death, and their efforts are transformed when they become the one single "representative" of the planet's people and culture.