Ancient Shores
Ancient Shores-HC
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4.0 • 86 Ratings
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- $4.99
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- $4.99
Publisher 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.
Customer Reviews
Anticlimactic
The journey is fun as it invites speculation about the origins of the discoveries, but the ending is rushed and rather disappointing.
What a ride
I decided to read this book even after reading reviews that mentioned there was politics and world events heavily involved with a fantastic discovery. I tend to like my Scifi a little more pure. Best decision of the month! I was hooked immediately and could not put it down until the last word. One word of criticism... I was left with such a sense of loss of not getting to explore all the worlds that this story so tantalyzingly dangles in front of the reader. A second novel is an absolute MUST!!!!
Worst Deus Ex ever
It started okay...There was a lot of potential for it to be good...It was not fulfilled. Do not expect anything to be resolved In a satisfactory way.
I love McDevitt. He has flaws, but they’re usually bearable. These weren’t.
Edit: I saw this book on sale, and went to add a negative review, and saw that I’d already left one. That’s how much I hated this book.