Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science fiction, English
Languages : en
Pages : 1286
Book Description
Canopus in Argos
Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science fiction, English
Languages : en
Pages : 1286
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science fiction, English
Languages : en
Pages : 1286
Book Description
The Sirian Experiments
Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher: HarperPerennial
ISBN: 9780006547211
Category : Allegories
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
'The Sirian Experiments' is the third volume in Doris Lessing's celebrated space fiction series, 'Canopus in Argos: Archives'. In this interlinked quintet of novels, she creates a new, extraordinary cosmos where the fate of the Earth is influenced by the rivalries and interactions of three powerful galactic empires, Canopus, Sirius and their enemy, Puttiora. 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. 'The Sirian Experiments' chronicles the origins of our planet, as the three galactic empires fight for control of the human race. The novel charts the gradual moral awakening of its narrator, Ambien II, a 'dry, dutiful, efficient' female Sirian administrator. Witnessing the wanton colonization of land and people, Ambien begins to question her involvement in such insidious experimentati- on, her faith in the possibility of human progress itself growing weaker every day.
Publisher: HarperPerennial
ISBN: 9780006547211
Category : Allegories
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
'The Sirian Experiments' is the third volume in Doris Lessing's celebrated space fiction series, 'Canopus in Argos: Archives'. In this interlinked quintet of novels, she creates a new, extraordinary cosmos where the fate of the Earth is influenced by the rivalries and interactions of three powerful galactic empires, Canopus, Sirius and their enemy, Puttiora. 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. 'The Sirian Experiments' chronicles the origins of our planet, as the three galactic empires fight for control of the human race. The novel charts the gradual moral awakening of its narrator, Ambien II, a 'dry, dutiful, efficient' female Sirian administrator. Witnessing the wanton colonization of land and people, Ambien begins to question her involvement in such insidious experimentati- on, her faith in the possibility of human progress itself growing weaker every day.
Shikasta
Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780006547198
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
From 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.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780006547198
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
From 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.
The Sirian Experiments (Canopus in Argos: Archives Series, Book 3)
Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 000738355X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 575
Book Description
From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the third instalment in the visionary novel cycle ‘Canopus in Argos: Archives’.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 000738355X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 575
Book Description
From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the third instalment in the visionary novel cycle ‘Canopus in Argos: Archives’.
The Making of the Representative for Planet 8
Author: Philip Glass
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire
Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780006547228
Category : African fiction (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The fifth and final volume in Doris Lessing's visionary novel cycle Canopus in Argos: Archives. It is a mix of fable, futuristic fantasy and pseudo-documentary accounts of 20th-century history.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780006547228
Category : African fiction (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The fifth and final volume in Doris Lessing's visionary novel cycle Canopus in Argos: Archives. It is a mix of fable, futuristic fantasy and pseudo-documentary accounts of 20th-century history.
Shikasta (Canopus in Argos: Archives Series, Book 1)
Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007455534
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the first instalment in the visionary novel cycle ‘Canopus in Argos: Archives’.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007455534
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the first instalment in the visionary novel cycle ‘Canopus in Argos: Archives’.
Cosmonaut Keep
Author: Ken MacLeod
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429977159
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Ranging from a gritty near-future Earth to a distant alien world, Ken MacLeod's Cosmonaut Keep is contemporary science fiction at its highest level.A visionary epic filled with daring individuals seeking a place for themselves in a vast, complex, and enigmatic universe. Matt Cairns is a 21st-century outlaw Programmer who takes on the shady jobs no one else will touch. Against his better judgment, he accepts an assignment to crack the Marshall Titov, a top-secret orbital station operated by the European Space Agency. But what Matt will discover there will propel him on an extraordinary and quite unexpected journey. Gregor Cairns is an exobiology student and descendant of one of Terra Nova's first families. Hopelessly infatuated with a lovely young trader's daughter, he is unaware that his research partner, Elizabeth, has fallen in love with him. Together, Gregor and Elizabeth confront the great work his family began three centuries earlier-to rediscover the secret of interstellar travel. Cosmonaut Keep is a 2002 Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429977159
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Ranging from a gritty near-future Earth to a distant alien world, Ken MacLeod's Cosmonaut Keep is contemporary science fiction at its highest level.A visionary epic filled with daring individuals seeking a place for themselves in a vast, complex, and enigmatic universe. Matt Cairns is a 21st-century outlaw Programmer who takes on the shady jobs no one else will touch. Against his better judgment, he accepts an assignment to crack the Marshall Titov, a top-secret orbital station operated by the European Space Agency. But what Matt will discover there will propel him on an extraordinary and quite unexpected journey. Gregor Cairns is an exobiology student and descendant of one of Terra Nova's first families. Hopelessly infatuated with a lovely young trader's daughter, he is unaware that his research partner, Elizabeth, has fallen in love with him. Together, Gregor and Elizabeth confront the great work his family began three centuries earlier-to rediscover the secret of interstellar travel. Cosmonaut Keep is a 2002 Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The Sirian Experiments
Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
The new world of words. [&c.].
Author: Edward Phillips
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description