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- Shikasta abstract "For Persian calligraphical style see Shikasta Nastaʿlīq.Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta (often shortened to Shikasta) is a 1979 science fiction novel by British Nobel Prize in Literature-winner Doris Lessing, and is the first book in her five-book Canopus in Argos series. It was first published in the United States in October 1979 by Alfred A. Knopf, and in the United Kingdom in November 1979 by Jonathan Cape. Shikasta is also the name of the fictional planet featured in the novel.Subtitled \"Personal, psychological, historical documents relating to visit by Johor (George Sherban) Emissary (Grade 9) 87th of the Period of the Last Days\", Shikasta is the history of the planet Shikasta (Earth) under the influence of three galactic empires, Canopus, Sirius, and their mutual enemy, Puttiora. The book is presented in the form of a series of reports by Canopean emissaries to Shikasta who document the planet's prehistory, its degeneration leading to the \"Century of Destruction\" (the 20th century), and the Apocalypse (World War III).Shikasta draws on the Old Testament and is influenced by spiritual and mystical themes in Sufism, an Islamic belief system in which Lessing had taken an interest in the mid-1960s. The book represented a major shift of focus in Lessing's writing, from realism to science fiction, and this disappointed many of her readers. It received mixed reviews from critics. Some were impressed by the scope and vision of the book, with one reviewer calling it \"an audacious and disturbing work from one of the world's great living writers\". Others were critical of the novel's bleakness, that humanity has no free will and that their fate lies in the hands of galactic empires.The story of Shikasta is retold in the third book of the Canopus series, The Sirian Experiments (1980), this time from the point of view of Sirius. Shikasta reappears in the fourth book in the series, The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 (1982), and the Zones, briefly mentioned in Shikasta, are the subject of the second book in the series, The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five (1980).".
- Shikasta author Doris_Lessing.
- Shikasta dcc "823/.9/14".
- Shikasta isbn "0-394-50732-0".
- Shikasta lcc "PZ3.L56684 Sh 1979 PR6023.E833".
- Shikasta literaryGenre Science_fiction.
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- Shikasta numberOfPages "448".
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- Shikasta series Canopus_in_Argos.
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