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Read Series: Canopus In Argos

by Author Doris Lessing

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The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire (1984)

'After I left the hotel, through a lobby all excitement and noise – a trade delegation from the Sirian HQ on their planet Motz were just leaving, looking pleased with themselves – I walked straight into the park opposite. Some freely wandering gazelles came to greet me. They originate, as it happ...

The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire (1984) by Doris Lessing
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The Sirian Experiments (1980)

What is amazing about "The Sirian Experiments" [which I ought to point out I read independently from the rest of the series] is the way in which the science fiction works as a sort of political-psychological history of what makes up the human psyche. Through the memoirs of one of the leaders of t...

The Sirian Experiments (1980) by Doris Lessing
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The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 (1994)

Un monologo interrotto da pochi dialoghi che descrive la lenta distruzione di un pianeta. Difficile da capire, anche leggendo la post-fazione dell'autrice. Ispirato dalle vicende legate all'esplorazione del polo sud e dalla morte di Scott, dovuta a inefficienze e disorganizzazione nella spedizion...

The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 (1994) by Doris Lessing
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Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta (1979)

First read January 2005This book does three ambitious things.1. It takes the Old Testament of the Bible as inspiration for its mythical geo-historical content, but instead of an angry bearded guy in charge, it has a super-advanced utopian-collectivist space-travelling civilization colonising Eart...

Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta (1979) by Doris Lessing