The Sirian Experiments: The Report By Ambien II,of the Five

Lessing, Doris

ISBN 10: 0224018914 / ISBN 13: 9780224018913

Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1981

About this Item

First edition hard cover, in very condition, with unclipped dust jacket in good condition. General shelf and handling wear, including tanning to cover, and creasing and wear to DJ edges, corners and folds. Pageblock tanned. Within, pages are tighty bound, and content is unmarked. CN.

Seller Inventory # 547225

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Sirian Experiments: The Report By Ambien II,of the Five
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London
• Publication Date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0224018914
• ISBN 13: 9780224018913
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Book Type: Used
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science-Fiction & Fantasy

About this title

Synopsis

The third 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.

From the Publisher

'The story Ambien tells is a panorama of the posibilities of civilisation and barbarism, ranging from a matriarchal version of Atlantis to the Aztec cult of human sacrifice. Doris Lessing's interests are strictly terrestrial an the figures from outer space are there to serve as tellers of an earthly tale providing a new, sometimes startling, perspective on earthly affairs and a largeless of vision beyond the horizon of the conventional novel.' - Robert Alter, New York Times

'One of our greatest contemporary writers...Doris Lessing has invented a new cosmology to look at the world in new way: she is attempting to tackle nothing less than all human life on Earth.' - Financial Times