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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 .
The story is told from the point of view of the matriarchal utopian Zone Three, and is about gender conflict and the breaking down of barriers between the sexes. 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.
(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 ...
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]
The Canopus in Argos novels present an advanced interstellar society's efforts to accelerate the evolution of other worlds, including Earth. Using Sufi concepts, to which Lessing had been introduced in the mid-1960s by her "good friend and teacher" Idries Shah , [ 42 ] the series of novels also uses an approach similar to that employed by the ...
Together with Glass's 1997 opera The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five, it is part of a planned trilogy of operas based on Lessing's Canopus in Argos novels. [ 1 ] The opera was co-commissioned by English National Opera , Houston Grand Opera , Het Muziektheater , Amsterdam, and Theater Kiel , and co-produced with Artpark , Lewiston ...