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The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five is a 1980 science fiction novel by Doris Lessing. It is 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 Alfred A. Knopf, and in the United Kingdom in May 1980 by Jonathan Cape.
The second in Lessing’s Canopus in Argos space fiction series, The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five shifts from the galactic view of human evolution, history, and the eventual chaotic upheaval on Earth (a.k.a. Shikasta) to an on-the-ground account of two regents—Al-Ith, the queen of Zone Three, and Ben Ata, the king of Zone ...
May 10, 1997 · The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five. An opera in two acts, for orchestra, chorus and soloists
May 23, 1994 · Ben Ata, in turn, is ordered to marry the savage beauty who rules Zone Five, a land that both unites and reverses the other two Zones.In ‘The Marriages …’. Doris Lessing uses science-fiction brilliantly to investigate the conflict between men and women.
'The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five' is the second volume in Doris Lessing's celebrated space fiction series, 'Canopus in Argos: Archives'. In this interlinked quintet of novels,...
Aug 19, 2010 · The marriages between zones three, four, and five (as narrated by the chroniclers of zone three) by. Lessing, Doris May, 1919-. Publication date. 1980. Topics. Science fiction. Publisher. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House.
The novel takes place in three of six metaphysical Zones that encircle the planet Shikasta (an allegorical Earth), and concerns two ordained marriages that link the patriarchal and...
