Doris Lessing
Posted in Events dear boy. Events, Science Fiction at 12:00 on 19 November 2013
I see Doris Lessing has died.
For all that she won the Nobel Prize I only ever read one of her books, Re: Colonised Planet 5: Shikasta. I found it hard going, told rather than unfolded and turgid. Perhaps I was too young then to appreciate it. It came out in 1979.
It read to me like the sort of Science Fiction written by people who don’t write Science Fiction. It meant I never sought out any of her other fiction. My loss it would seem.
Doris May Lessing (neé Tayler,) 22/10/1919 – 17/11/2013. So it goes.
