Ancient Shores

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. ...

Product details

• Authors: Jack McDevitt
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.10.1996
• EAN: 9780061054266
• ISBN: 978-0-06-105426-6
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 105 mm x 171 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Romance, Science Fiction, Historical fiction, Humorous fiction, Ancient World, Fiction: general and literary, Comic (humorous) fantasy, Science fiction: aliens / UFOs, Romance: fantasy and paranormal, FICTION: Science Fiction / General, FICTION: Fantasy / Urban, FICTION: Fantasy / Paranormal, FICTION: Fantasy / Humorous, FICTION: Science Fiction / Action & Adventure, FICTION: Science Fiction / Alien Contact, FICTION: Science Fiction / Humorous, FICTION: Historical / Ancient, science fiction/fantasy;1995;1996;1997, Adventure / action fiction