The Sirian Experiments

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name = The Sirian Experiments
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image_caption = US first edition cover (Alfred A. Knopf)
author = Doris Lessing
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country = United States
language = English
series = "Canopus in Argos"
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genre = Science fiction novel
publisher = Alfred A. Knopf
pub_date = 1980
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media_type = Print (Hardcover)
pages = 331
isbn = 0-394-51231-6
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preceded_by = The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five
followed_by = The Making of the Representative for Planet 8

"The Sirian Experiments" ISBN 0394512316 is the third in the "Canopus in Argos" series of unconventional science fiction novels written by Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1981. Its themes and principles are very different from typical space opera.

"Shikasta", the first book in the series, gives an imagined history of the Earth in which superior aliens from Canopus and Sirius play a role. It is told from the Canopean viewpoint. This work covers some of the same ground from the viewpoint of the inhabitants of Sirius (who are much less knowledgable about the meaning of cosmic resonances, and their influence on history, than the Canopeans).

External links

* [http://lessing.redmood.com/theexperiments.html "The Sirian Experiments" page at dorislessing.org]