• Canopus in Argos: Archives is a sequence of five science fiction novels by Nobel laureate author Doris Lessing, which portray a number of societies at...
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    orbits Canopus. Canopus is the home of superior and benevolent aliens in Doris Lessing's Canopus in Argos books. Canopus is a system present in the video...
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  • video editing cards and video editing software Canopus G-ADHL, a Short Empire flying boat Canopus in Argos, a series of space fiction by Doris Lessing Canopic...
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    novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979–1983). Lessing was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. In awarding the prize, the Swedish...
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  • Lathe of Heaven, Always Coming Home Stanisław Lem Doris Lessing - Canopus in Argos Lois Lowry - The Giver George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty Four Robert...
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  • The Sirian Experiments (category Fiction set around Canopus)
    science fiction novel by Doris Lessing. It is the third book in her five-book Canopus in Argos series and continues the story of Earth's evolution, which...
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  • Shikasta (category Fiction set around Canopus)
    first book in her five-book Canopus in Argos series. It was first published in the United States in December 1980 by Alfred A. Knopf, and in the United...
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  • The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five (category Fiction set around Canopus)
    the second book in her five-book Canopus in Argos series, the first being Shikasta (1979). It was first published in the United States in March 1980 by...
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  • (1985–1986, premiered in 1988, libretto by Doris Lessing, after her fourth novel from Canopus in Argos) The Voyage (1990, premiered in 1992, libretto by David...
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    Lessing, who was later awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, wrote a series of five SF novels, Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979–1983), which depict the efforts...
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    In Greek mythology, Canopus or Canobus (Ancient Greek: Κάνωβος) was the pilot of the ship of King Menelaus of Sparta during the Trojan War. Canopus is...
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  • The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 (novel) (category Fiction set around Canopus)
    fourth book in her five-book Canopus in Argos series and relates the fate of a planet, under the care of the benevolent galactic empire Canopus, that is...
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  • Survivor (1974), Briefing for a Descent into Hell (1971), and the Canopus in Argos series (1974–1983). Isaac Asimov, Nightfall, 1941 Isaac Asimov, The...
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    hour from the perspective of an extraterrestrial observer such as the Canopus in Argos Series (1979–83). She has also written autobiographical accounts of...
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    Jonathan Cape (category Book publishing companies based in London)
    (edition) Bedford Historical Series Bedford Series of Economic Handbooks Canopus in Argos: Archives Cape Editions Cape Poetry Cape Poetry Paperbacks Essential...
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  • Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire is a 1983 science fiction novel by Doris Lessing. It is the fifth book in her five-book Canopus in Argos series and comprises...
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  • live among humans across several lifetimes in various eras of history. Part 1 of a 5-novel cycle Canopus in Argos: Archives. Lewis, C. S. The Screwtape Letters...
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  • Lessing also published a sequence of five science fiction novels the Canopus in Argos: Archives between 1979 and 1983. Terry Pratchett is best known for...
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  • who wrote the five-novel science fiction series Canopus in Argos, received the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction lists...
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  • Twentieth-century English literature (category History of literature in the United Kingdom)
    Terrorist (1985), and a sequence of five science fiction novels the Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979–83). Indeed, from 1950 on a significant number of major...
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    Lessing also published a sequence of five science fiction novels the Canopus in Argos: Archives from 1979 to 1983. Sir Terry Pratchett is best known for...
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  • The Good Terrorist (category Novels set in London)
    This prompted her to write her five-volume "space fiction" series, Canopus in Argos: Archives, which drew on Sufi concepts. The series was not well received...
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    The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 (opera) (category Fiction set around Canopus)
    Five, it is part of a planned trilogy of operas based on Lessing's Canopus in Argos novels. The opera was co-commissioned by English National Opera, Houston...
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    satirical version of the theory in his Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series (1979–1992). Doris Lessing's Canopus in Argos series (1979–1983) describes...
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    latitudes. The brightest of these is Canopus (α Carinae), the second-brightest night-time star, now assigned to Carina. Argo Navis is known from Greek texts...
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  • Navy have been named Canopus after the first magnitude star Canopus in the constellation Argo. USS Canopus (AS-9) was launched in 1919 by the New York...
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  • between the facets of society is also found in the work of Le Guin and in Doris Lessing's Canopus in Argos series. In Dreamsnake McIntyre uses language conveying...
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    contains Canopus, a white-hued supergiant that is the second-brightest star in the night sky at magnitude −0.72. Alpha Carinae, as Canopus is formally...
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    Io (mythology) (category Metamorphoses into animals in Greek mythology)
    of Triopas and Sosis; Io's mother in the latter case was Leucane. Io was a priestess of the goddess Hera in Argos, whose cult her father Inachus was...
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  • Suhail (star) (category Argo Navis)
    Zeta Puppis, in the constellation of Puppis, is traditionally known as Suhail Hadar (سهيل هدار). In addition to these, the star Canopus (α Carinae), the...
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