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It takes the old testament of the bible as inspiration for its mythical geohistorical content, but instead of an angry bearded guy in charge, it has a superadvanced utopiancollectivist spacetravelling civilization colonising earth and then struggling to maintain a shadow of. Doris lessings science fiction series constitutes her most mature vision of the theme of equilibrium. Jonathan cape, 1979 granadagrafton, 1981 flamingo, 1994 new york. In 1979, nobel prize winning author doris lessing published a science fiction novel called, shikasta. This is the first volume in the series of novels doris lessing calls collectively. The word file is viewable with any pc or mac and can be further adjusted if you want to mix questions around andor add your own headers for things like name, period, and date. Shikasta, the first in what would become five science fiction novels by doris lessing, begins with a journey in to the prehistory of the planet. Archives, comprehends and complements the earlier works. Between 1979 and 1983, lessing produced a second series of five novels, canopus in argos. Shikasta ebook by doris lessing 9780307777669 rakuten kobo.
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