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082			_a823.914 _bDOR/S
100	0		_aLessing, Doris
245	1	0	_aShikasta: Re: Colonised Planet 5: personal, psychological, historical documents relating to visit by Johor (George Sherban) Emissary (Grade 9) 87th of the Last Period of the Last Days
260			_aLondon _bFlamingo _c1994
300			_a448p.
490			_aCanopus in Argos: Archives
500			_aRe: Colonised Planet 5
520			_aFrom Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the first instalment in the visionary novel cycle 'Canopus in Argos: Archives'. The story of the final days of our planet is told through the reports of Johor, an emissary sent from Canopus. Earth, now named Shikasta (the Stricken) by the kindly, paternalistic Canopeans who colonised it many centuries ago, is under the influence of the evil empire of Puttiora. War, famine, disease and environmental disasters ravage the planet. To Johor, mankind is a 'totally crazed species', racing towards annihilation: his orders to save humanity set him what seems to be an impossible task. Blending myth, fable and allegory, Doris Lessing's astonishing visionary creation both reflects and redefines the history of our own world from its earliest beginnings to an inevitable, tragic self-destruction.
650			_aEnglish Fiction
650	0		_aEnglish Literature
650	0		_aScience fiction, English
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