Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta

Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta is a 1979 science fiction novel by Doris Lessing, and is the first book in her five-book Canopus in Argos series. It was first published in the United Kingdom in November 1979 by Jonathan Cape, and in the United States in December 1980 by Alfred A. Knopf. Shikasta is also the name of the fictional planet featured in the novel.