Geodyssey · Book 2

Shame of Man

Published
1 January 1994
Pages
512
ISBN-13
9780812550917
Type
novel
Cover of Shame of Man

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.

Key facts about Shame of Man

Shame of Man is a novel by Piers Anthony. Readers have had it since 1994. It runs to 512 pages.

Our list holds 1 edition of Shame of Man. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780812550917 to find the main one.

Shame of Man is book 2 of 5 in the Geodyssey series. The series has 5 published books. However, the series starts with Isle of Woman (1993).

Additionally, Piers Anthony writes Battle Circle, Of Man and Manta and Jason Striker, plus 11 more series. Those series sit on our science fiction, action thriller and fantasy shelves. Meanwhile, Three Novel Nymphs is the latest published Piers Anthony book on file, from 2025.

About Piers Anthony

Piers Anthony is a prolific British-born American author best known for Xanth, his long-running comic fantasy series built around magical puns and wordplay, which has run to more than forty novels since 1977. See every Piers Anthony book in order.

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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