Recolonised planet 5 voyager classics by lessing, doris from amazons fiction books store. This is the first volume in the series of novels doris lessing calls collectively canopus in argos. Known for her extensive corpus of mainstream, leftleaning fiction, shikasta represents her first foray into science fiction. Knopf, and in the united kingdom in november 1979 by jonathan cape. Presented as a compilation of documents, reports, letters, speeches and journal entries, this purports to be a general study of the planet shikasta clearly the planet earthto be used by history students of the higher planet canopus and to be stored in the canopian. It was first published in the united states in october 1979 by alfred a. Humans are biological agents, both collectively and as individuals. Pdf the grass is singing book by doris lessing free.
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