Imperial Earth (1975) is a saga about the colonization of the solar system. The thematic determinants of the novel are determined by extrapolations of scientific hypotheses related to interplanetary travel, and by the SETI program.
The book represents the most ambitious attempt by the Baigent-Leigh duo (authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail) to show how Western culture, art, science, and politics from the Renaissance to the present day are actually the fruit of a single, millennia-old o