Ancient Shores

Jack McDevitt

Oct 2009 · Sold by Harper Collins

About this ebook

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.

Ratings and reviews

This is McDevitt's poorest novel. I found the suspension of disbelief required to be beyond reason. Who could believe that the U.S. military would allow the possibility of a superior technology to remain in the hands of a bunch of farmers? Does anyone really think that the military would take the chance of a foreign power getting their hands on this technology? In reality, the military would have confiscated the yacht immediately, spirited it away where it would never be heard from again. No Chapter 2. No Roundhouse.

the discovery was fun to read. Way too much,reaction of discovery by religious, political, and public. I'd rather read Mcdevitt true sc-fi .

About the author

Jack McDevitt is the author of A Talent for War, The Engines of God, Ancient Shores, Eternity Road, Moonfall, and numerous prize-winning short stories. He has served as an officer in the U.S. Navy, taught English and literature, and worked for the U.S. Customs Service in North Dakota and Georgia.