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“A realm of war did not need courtesies”

January 17, 2018 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Book 1: Re: Colonized Planet 5 – Shikasta. Personal, Psychological, Historical Documents Relating to Visit by Johor [George Sherban] Emissary Grade 9, 87th of the Period of the Last Days This is the first of five “space fiction” novels that Doris Lessing wrote in the late 1970s, early 1980s, and finally in the early 1990s. I call it “space fiction” because she calls it “space fiction” in the opening “Some Remarks” of the collection. They were published separately and then together, and then went out […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: canopus in argos archives, documents related to the sentimental agents of volyen empire, Doris Lessing, re: colonized planet 5 shikasta, the making of the representative of planet 8, the marriages between zones three four and five, the sirian experiments

vel veeter's CBR10 Review No:17 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: canopus in argos archives, documents related to the sentimental agents of volyen empire, Doris Lessing, re: colonized planet 5 shikasta, the making of the representative of planet 8, the marriages between zones three four and five, the sirian experiments ·
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