Candace G. (Ogre) reviewed on 4/10/2015 + 1568 more book reviews

This is a 'what if' similar to the black monoliths that show up in another science fiction work... but instead of strange monuments, a farmer finds a gorgeous yacht buried in the middle of a Great Plains farm. That's startling enough in itself, raising questions of who would put it there. But then scientists discover that the substance the boat is made of has an impossible atomic number. The thing CAN'T exist. But it does.
A little more hunting turns up additional alien technology on the nearby Indian reservation. Then things really hit the fan.
With simply the rumor of proven extra-terrestrial visit and possible advanced technology comes public furor, media frenzy, financial uproar and political cover-your-ass. Will the government step in with another $24 worth of beads and take over? Or will something worse happen?

From back cover: 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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