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Ancient Shores
Author: Jack McDevitt

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Publisher: Eos
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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ISBN-13: 9780061054266 - ISBN-10: 0061054267
Publication Date: 12/1/1996
Pages: 384


Other Versions of this Book: Hardcover

Book Description:

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 miles from any ocean, no one knew. True, Tom Lasker's wheat field had once been on the shoreline of a great inland sea, but that was a long time ago -- ten thousand years ago.

A return to science fiction on a grand scale, reminiscent of the best of Heinlein, Simak, and Clarke, Ancient Shores is the most ambitious and exciting SF triumph of the decade, a bold speculative adventure that does not shrink from the big questions -- and the big answers.


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Top Member Book Reviews

CA L. (unclemonster) wrote on 8/31/2006...

3 member(s) found this review helpful.

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.

Suzanne R. (Suzanne60637) wrote on 3/27/2006...

3 member(s) found this review helpful.

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.

Kibi W. (Kibi) wrote on 3/5/2006...

3 member(s) found this review helpful.

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.

Walter W. (WebsterWW) wrote on 1/16/2005...

3 member(s) found this review helpful.

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

Vanessa K. (Vanessa) wrote on 3/19/2007...

2 member(s) found this review helpful.

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


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