Canopus in Argos: Archives Re: Colonised Planet 5 Shikasta (First American Edition )

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...A variety of narratives, including the report of Johor (George Sherban)--the Emissary sent by the Powers controlling our part of the universe--reveal what the planet Shikasta and its inhabitants have, in desperation, endured" ; the first book in the Canopus Series