Ancient Shores - Softcover

McDevitt, Jack

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061054267 ISBN 13: 9780061054266

Publisher: Harper Voyager, 1996

Synopsis

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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Review:

"An old-fashioned page turner...filled with breathless plotting...[and] a nail-biting ending."--"New York Daily News

From the Back Cover:

SCIENCE FICTION ON A GRAND SCALE

Tom Lasker is about to have his life turned upside down. In the midst of his wheat fields two thousand miles from any ocean, he digs up the remains of a forty-two foot sailboat in near perfect condition. It's true the wheat fields had once been on the shoreline of a great inland sea, but that was ten thousand years ago, during the last Ice Age. Stranger still, the vessel is made form alien materials and bears on impossible atomic code.

When a subsequent discovery is made, a structure called the 'Roundhouse', the region becomes the focus of dangerous political conflict and self-seeking ambition, for the Roundhouse is revealed to be the doorway to another world...

"Jack McDevitt is one of the best hard SF writers in the business"
KEVIN J. ANDERSON, author of X-FILES: 'Ground Zero'

"Jack McDevitt writes with wisdom, compassion and an abiding sense of wonder"
JEFFREY A. CARVER

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Voyager
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0061054267
• ISBN 13: 9780061054266
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 384