Geodyssey · Book 2

Shame of Man

by Piers Anthony

Published
1 January 1994
Pages
512
ISBN-13
9780812550917
Type
novel

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About this book

Shame of Man (1994, 512 pages) follows the same recurring cast into a new era of human development, the second-longest book in a series whose entries grow steadily larger with each installment.

Its place in Geodyssey

Shame of Man is book 2 in the Geodyssey series. It follows Isle of Woman. It is followed by Hope of Earth. 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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