Muse of Art allows you to view some explosive eras in history through the eyes of three women: Avalanche, the beauty skilled in the arts of love; Melee, the noble-woman who molds men to her will; and Talena, the lovely weaver of tales who embodies Eve, the mother of the human race.

"The 4th novel in the Geodyssey series is Muse of Art, following Isle of Women, Shame of Man, and Hope of Earth. Muse has a more restricted time scale of about half a million years, and explores ancient Egypt, the Olmecs of central American, the real nature of Attila the Hun, the conquest of Italy by the Napoleonic forces, the meaning of a sea-going clock, the siege of Stalingrad in World War Two, and the near future World war Three. In the process it contains what is the most sustained seduction scene I have written, and the Stalingrad chapter is a short novel in itself, 50,000 words, as this was probably the turning point of the war. This will be published by TOR in hardcover Mayhem, 1999. I am not sure whether I will complete the next, Climate of Change, as the series has not done well enough to justify the time and expense in writing it."