Book Reviews of Ancient Shores

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.

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.

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.

A darn good read. This book asks the questions and gives the answers. A romp through the worlds.

Fast and interesting read! This is my first Jack Mcdevitt book and I want to read more of his books.

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.

This is the seminal book in a series with amazing possibilities. Recommended read.

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.

The book starts out building suspense. The suspense builds, but there is no payoff in the end! He developed his characters better than he developed an ending.
It looks like he ran out of steam, or ideas, in the end. Where I was expecting a bang, I got a whimper. I expected better from McDevitt. Then again, not every hit is a home run. This one is second base.

Whoa -- this was a good one. McDevitt has created his best yet. Read it.