100 Sci-Fi Novels - CANOPUS IN ARGOS: ARCHIVES by Doris Lessing
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51. Nineteen Eighty-four by George Orwell - 1949
52. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin - 1924
53. The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett - 1955
54. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card - 1985
Speaker for the Dead - 1986
Xenocide - 1991
Children of the Mind - 1996
55. Bill, the Galactic Hero by Harry Harrison - 1965
56. Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany - 1975
57. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman - 1974
Forever Peace - 1997
Forever Free - 1999
58. Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy - 1976
59. A Billion Days of Earth by Doris Piserchia - 1976
60. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley - 1932
61. The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester - 1956
62. Canopus in Argos: Archives by Doris Lessing
Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta - 1979
The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five - 1980
The Sirian Experiments - 1980
The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 - 1982
The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire - 1983
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I tried to read this in the early 90s but I think i was too young for it at the time. Definitely want to come back to it. Lessing seems like an interesting person. She was involved in British SF fandom for a short time apparently
Interesting about her involvement in British fandom. Maybe she was less of an outsider than I originally thought! I sometimes forget that just because I'm not aware of someone's involvement in the genre early on doesn't mean that they weren't...
@@inerdius And British fandom was not really like American fandom -- they had a lot of trouble getting their own pro-quality magazines going and stuff, so there wasn't really the same kind of background and history,e ven though major publishers were publishing science fiction works by "literary" authors. It was definitely a thing though still, going back to the 1930s even.
BTW not sure if you know of this one, but there is another Nobel Prize winner who wrote at least one work of science fiction -- an epic science fiction poem called Aniara, by the writer Harry Martinson. I read it for the first time last y ear. It's quite strange, but really neat and interesting -- you'd think he was an outsider too, and he probably was, but he sure seems to have had a pretty good grasp on the conventions of science fiction back in the 1950s.
The style/fornat of the first book can be off putting. It starts off as very dry bureaucratic documents that set the scene. I think it’s important to digest this part to understand the Canopean mindset. The style continues throughout the book, but it is less of an obstacle because you’re into the story by that time.
I think of the story more as religious allegory than scifi.
@@MarcosElMalo2 Good to know. I'll keep that in mind when I return to finish reading the series.
Must admit I've never read any Doris Lessing and did not know of these books. Sounds like Canopus just needed a shot of the Prime Directive in their society to keep things between the lines!
Wikipedia tells me that Lessing even showed up as a speaker at Worldcon in the 1980s. Never would have guessed. Shows how little I know.
Haha, yes, I agree. I also had no idea that Lessing had been a speaker at a Worldcon. Maybe she was less of an outsider than I thought!
They do have a prime directive of a sort, but it’s not a strict prohibition on interference.
The summary here gets a few facts wrong. The canopean giants are not intended to interbreed with humans. The giants are introduced to create a symbiotic relationship that benefits both races.
The series is allegorical. It’s more of a religious allegory than science fiction. I think this is why Lessing insisted on calling it “Space Fiction” rather than scifi.
Also we should note that the books are written in a variety of styles from a variety of viewpoints.
Thanks for this review! It’s been more than a few years since I’ve read the books and I’m feeling the urge to read them again.
@@MarcosElMalo2 Nice! Thanks for some more insight!
@@MarcosElMalo2 Thanks for the clarification. I still feel that it is an odd approach to a novel that is supposed to be anti-colonialism. At least, that's what I've read about it, that it is perceived as being anti-colonialism. I agree that it is more of a religious allegory than a sci-fi story.