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Ancient Shores
Ancient Shores
Author: Jack McDevitt
It turned up in a North Dakota wheat field: a triangle, like a shark's fin, sticking up from the black loam. Tom Lasker did what any farmer would have done. He dug it up. And discovered a boat, made of a fiberglass-like material with an utterly impossible atomic number. What it was doing buried under a dozen feet of prairie soil two thousand mil...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780061054266
ISBN-10: 0061054267
Publication Date: 12/1/1996
Pages: 384
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Publisher: Eos
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Excellent look on what alien technology (or even the idea that we may have access to it someday) might do to our world. It focuses more on the social aspect than the actual science fiction part of the story.
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My husband says: More concerned with the social ramifications of first contact than with the exploration of alien worlds, and I would have been more excited by the latter. I preferred Eternity Road to this book.
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This was a fun read.

There really was a great lake 10K years ago that stretched between what is now North Dakota, Minnesota, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Archaeologists are researching lost coastal civilizations from 10K years ago that are now underwater. This book is a fun twist on the theme.

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A great read, a lot of fun; a North Dakota farmer finds THE Archaeological Site of the last ten millenia sticking out of his wheat field; then in come the professional archaeologists, the Gumment, the Sioux Indians, the CIA, the NSA, etc. The author's first novel, I believe, and with "Eternity Road", his best.
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This is the seminal book in a series with amazing possibilities. Recommended read.
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I was disappointed in the story line. Most of the story is about how current society will be affected by the discovery of ancient visitors rather than about the visitors.


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