Hope of Earth : A Novel of Human History

The New York Times–bestselling author's Geodyssey saga continues as six characters live through five million years of human development and destruction. Piers Anthony presents six orphaned siblings as they grow up, love, and marry across eons of time. Beginning as ape-men, three brothers and three sisters evolve into modern humans as they experience all the passions, fears, desires, and joys that are common to all people. With a supporting cast that ranges from the Ice Man to Herod to Louis XIV, the siblings find their innate qualities can be either virtues or vices, vital survival tools or fatal liabilities, depending on the times.Hope of Earth follows Isle of Woman and Shame of Man, though each book in the Geodyssey series can be read as a standalone novel.