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| Original Title: | Ancient Shores |
| ISBN: | 0061054267 (ISBN13: 9780061054266) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Ancient Shores #1 |
| Setting: | North Dakota(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel (1997) |
Jack McDevitt
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 384 pages Rating: 3.65 | 2169 Users | 177 Reviews
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| Title | : | Ancient Shores (Ancient Shores #1) |
| Author | : | Jack McDevitt |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 384 pages |
| Published | : | October 23rd 1996 by EOS (an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers) (first published April 1st 1996) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction |
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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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Ratings: 3.65 From 2169 Users | 177 ReviewsColumn Appertaining To Books Ancient Shores (Ancient Shores #1)
I read this book many years ago but I decided to read it again because after nearly 20 years the sequel, Thunderbird, has come out and I am going to read it next. I wanted the first book fresh in my mind and it was a very good read. In this one an ancient structure is unearthed on an Indian reservation and it is found to be a portal to several different worlds. It has been unused and buried for over 10,000 years but it shows no sign of decay and still has a functioning power source. This bookThis book was like a "wave" at a football game. You know the one where people stand up in turn waving their arms around and it gives the effect that the stadium is an ocean? Yeah. That. Let me explain the analogy.Well you probably got that it was up and down with the suspense, drama and general kickassery of the story. It was indeed. The gait would pick up and get me real interested, then it would slow back down and even bog down with unnecessary character introductions and irrelevant loose
All I can say is wow. This book is light on the sci-fi and deals more directly with the larger questions. What if stories are fun if done correctly and this book is no exception. This writing is very crisp and easy to follow the storyline. A good well-rounded tale. =)
Enjoyed this one a lot. McDevitt has some fun with characters and tells a thoughtful tale of alien artifacts found in North Dakota. 3 Stars
UgInteresting premise, louse writing. If the author was actually a writer this could have been an interesting story. Reminds me of an Amazon free book but not worth even that price.
Stephen King likes it.
written in 1996, "Ancient Shores" is eerily relevant to today's economic crisis, albeit for different reasons. in McDevitt's epic novel, the economy turns chaotic because of newly unearthed extraterrestrial technology that doesn't decay or wear out (thus throwing industries into free-fall for fear of not being able to compete with new scientific advances). yet, the public response in this science-fiction scenario is so indicative of humanity's fear of the unknown--the most popular reaction is to
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