Geodyssey · Book 3

Hope of Earth

by Piers Anthony

Published
1 January 1997
Pages
631
ISBN-13
9780812571110
Type
novel

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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…

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