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SHIKASTA by Doris Lessing
Science fiction is pastoral turned upside down, radiating a nostalgia not for what was but for what could be. Since this mystic longing has increasingly filled the novels and stories of Author Doris Lessing, 59, it is not surprising that she has finally got around to spaceships and galactic travelers...
All that may seem too much for a 384-page book to accomplish, but Lessing's premise gives her aeons of time to fill. Scouts from the benign galactic empire Canopus discover a small but promising planet, obviously the young earth, whose denizens include a strain of monkeys beginning...
The chief recorder in Shikasta is Johor, a virtually immortal Canopean who is in on the creation of Rohanda and who returns in the present (the Century of Destruction) to salvage what he can from the calamity. The novel is also pieced together out of passages from Canopean history books...
DIED. Lessing Rosenwald, 88, former chairman of Sears, Roebuck, and collector of rare books, prints and drawings which he donated to the National Gallery of Art and the Library of Congress; in Jenkintown, Pa. Son of Julius Rosenwald, mail-order pioneer who preceded him as Sears chairman, Rosenwald retired from...