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Ancient Shores
Jack Mcdevitt

Ancient Shores: vol. 1

Ancient Shores

Eos (Dec 01, 1996)
9780061054266
| Mass Market Paperback
384 pages | 107 x 170 mm | English
$ 7.99 | Value: $ 7.99
Dewey 813

Subject

  • Fiction / General
  • Fiction / Science Fiction / General
  • North Dakota
  • Science Fiction

Plot

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.