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From the Publisher: This is the first volume in the series of novels Doris Lessing calls collectively Canopus in Argos: Archives. 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 Earth-to be used by history students of the higher planet Canopus and to be stored in the Canopian archives. For eons, galactic empires have struggled against one another, and Shikasta is one of the main battlegrounds. Johar, an emissary from Canopus and the primary contributor to the archives, visits…
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18 editions · 7 languages- Paperback · English · 1982Shikasta Re Colonised Planet 5Granada Publishing · 448 pages · 9780586053102
- Hardcover · English · 1979Random House · 9789997518613
- Other · English · 2012HarperCollins Publishers Limited · 9780007455539
- Other · English · 2002HarperCollins Canada / Voyager · 448 pages · 9780007127764
- Other · English · 1981Vintage Books · 364 pages · 9780394749778
- Other · English · 1979Shikasta ReKnopf · 364 pages · 9780394507323
Fiction, science fiction, generalLife on other planetsFictionAncient CivilizationExtraterrestrial influencesEnglish Science fictionFiction in English
