233 49a6f69c-12f8-4beb-99cb-8f227e5c3ec9 Ancient Shores Jack McDevitt calibre (3.23.0) [https://calibre-ebook.com] 1996-10-23T04:00:00+00:00 <div><p>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.</p> <p>A return to science fiction on a grand scale, reminiscent of the best of Heinlein, Simak, and Clarke, <em>Ancient Shores</em> 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.</p> <p>**</p></div> Harper Voyager 9780061802102 0061054267 SDFmYvzHCNYC eng Fiction Science Fiction General