Doris Lessing is a British author and a Nobel Laureate, who has attempted every genre through her writings, most critically debated being her science fiction series Canopus in Argos: Archives. The first novel of the Canopus Series, Shikasta (1979) had put her in trouble, when from a “realist” she turned into a “Visionary” and a science fiction writer. She although not much affected by the criticism continued to write in this genre, and extrapolated the first novel to the full five-novel Canopus in
The Dispossessed Following World War I, novels describing utopias gradually decreased in number, until the genre almost went extinct in mid-century, being replaced by dystopias like the famous Nineteen-Eighty-Four written by George Orwell. Later on, in the mid-seventies, fuelled by the upsurge of social reform that began in the late sixties and continued into the new decade, new utopias graced the scene, the most memorable ones being Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia, Samuel R. Delany's Triton, and