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The Sirian Experiments chronicles the origins of our planet, the three galactic empires fight for control of the human race. The novel charts the gradual moral awakening of its narrator, charts the charts the gradual moral awakening of its narrator, Ambien II, a 'dry, dutiful, efficient' female Sirian administrator. Witnessing the wanton colonisation of land and people, Ambien begins to question her involvement in such insidious experimentation, her faith in the possibility os human progress itself growing weaker every day.
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Ambien II is a Sirian administrator who has been supervising experiments on the Southern continents of earth/shikasta. Like the Canopeans she becomes aware of the presence of Shammat (who seem to find the Sirians approachable). It provides a complimentary view to Shikasta but goes further and gives us more insight into Canopean ideas & ideals.
I found it more interesting than Shikasta, whether this is because the ideas have been developed more or that 3 books into the series I was more at home I can't say. It is however well written, provoking SF very much worth reading (