Geodyssey · Book 3
Hope of Earth
- Published
- 1 January 1997
- Pages
- 631
- ISBN-13
- 9780812571110
- Type
- novel

About this book
Hope of Earth (1997, 631 pages), published three years after Shame of Man and well over 100 pages longer, continues Anthony's fictionalized big-history project through another stage of human cultural and technological development.
Its place in Geodyssey
Hope of Earth is book 3 in the Geodyssey series. It follows Shame of Man. It is followed by Muse of Art. See the full Geodyssey reading order.
Geodyssey traces the same handful of recurring souls — reincarnated across tens of thousands of years, from prehistoric human migration out of Africa through the rise of agriculture, early civilization, and eventually the modern era — using each incarnation's story to dramatize a different stage of human cultural and technological development. Rather than a single continuous plot, the series is closer to a fictionalized survey of human prehistory and history: each book picks up the same small ensemble of…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780812571110