Muse of Art

Recently finished reading the book Muse of Art. It is the 4th addition to the Geodyssey collection by Piers Anthony. Each of the books follow a group of people through Earth's history, basing fiction on facts, with real places and events. In the concluding chapters, each of the books gives a glimpse into the future - possibilties of what may be. The endings are rather disturbing, mostly because of Anthony makes them so plausible. You can actually imagine it happening. In one of the books, humans resort to cannibalism, in this book it ends in World War 3. And of course, the most devastating weapons in WW3 will be biological.

The series carries with it a message - Earth is being destroyed, by us. And yet, there is still hope. In each of the catastrophic endings, humans survive with a second chance. Maybe, they will do Earth right the second time round. There is always hope..