
Ancient Shores
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.
- Publisher
- HarperPrism
- ISBN-13
- 9780061802102
- Genre
- Topics
- Ancient alien technologyScientific discoveryFirst contact
Awards
- Nebula Award for Best NovelShortlisted(1997)
Other awarded books from Jack McDevitt
- Seeker (2013)1 win · 10 score
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- Firebird (2011)0 wins · 5 score
- Infinity Beach (2001)0 wins · 5 score
- Moonfall (1999)0 wins · 5 score
- Omega (2003)0 wins · 5 score
- Polaris (2013)0 wins · 5 score
- The Engines of God (1995)0 wins · 5 score
- The Hercules Text (1986)0 wins · 4 score
- Cauldron (2013)0 wins · 3 score
- Coming Home (2014)0 wins · 3 score
- Echo (2010)0 wins · 3 score
- Odyssey (2013)0 wins · 3 score
- A Talent for War (2004)0 wins · 2 score
- Deepsix (2002)0 wins · 2 score
- Eternity Road (2009)0 wins · 2 score
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