Word: planet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crypto-futuristic city where you can rise 72 stories in an outdoor glass elevator and drink martinis in a revolving bar and look down on people as they smash their automobiles headlong into one another in front of the largest Coca Cola plant on the face of the planet. Robert E. Lee and the rest of the "noble" ones are gone. It is nothing like that...
...some respects, OPEC is to the dollar what Charles Darwin was to fundamental Christianity; practically overnight a cartel that controlled most of the planet's known oil reserves demonstrated that financial security was not necessarily descended from paper currency. "The store of value," writes Goodman, "had become oil. The yen, the marks, the dollars, the francs were spent; the oil was saved...
This is the third installment of a space saga that Author Doris Lessing calls Canopus in Argos: Archives. That running title is matched by the pace of Lessing's production: three good-sized novels in the past 16 months. Shikasta (1979) tells of a primitive, beautiful planet called Rohanda, which is being jointly colonized by the two vast galactic empires of Canopus and Sirius. A misalignment of cosmic forces throws Rohanda awry; its developing inhabitants stop listening to their wise tutors and begin behaving suspiciously like members of the human race. The Canopean overseers sadly change the place...
...adds. The primary subject is once again the catastrophe that overtakes Shikasta (earth). The observer this time is a woman named Ambien II, a virtually immortal emissary from Sirius. She was in on the original cultivation of Rohanda-Shikasta. She retains a proprietary interest in the ailing planet, and visits it every eon or so. In addition to the unfolding spectacle of human savagery, she sees some spectacular sights. She happens to be flying over in a small bubble of a spaceship when the planet suddenly tips over from its upright axis. Her description of this cataclysm, all grinding continents...
EPITAPH TO A DEAD PLANET...