Ancient Shores Book Reviews

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What a ride. I decided to read this book even after reading reviews that mentioned there was politics and world events heavily involved with a fantastic discovery. I tend to like my Scifi a little more pure. Best decision of the month! I was hooked immediately and could not put it down until the last word. One word of criticism... I was left with such a sense of loss of not getting to explore all the worlds that this story so tantalyzingly dangles in front of the reader. A second novel is an absolute MUST!!!!

Riveting, mind spurring read. Ancient Shores is beautifully written with vibrant characters and a plot and setting combo that both entertains and spurs the reader to think. I couldn't stop reading it, and even when it was over I wanted to pick it up and bask in it again. Fantastic book.

Decent read, but annoyingly faulty premises. I really enjoyed the possibilities the ancient artifact opened up. But as I read the novel I could not buy into the assertion that a global economic catastrophe would immediately result from finding an alien technology that could potentially make some current technology obsolete but no one was any where near duplicating it. Furthermore, the alien tech opened up so many new possibilities and opportunities that i would believe the opposite result should occur; i.e., i would foresee an economic boom to occur. I would say more but I don't want to give away what the artifact does. It seems to me that the premises would be analogous to suggesting that the invention of the steam engine would result in an economic collapse because blacksmiths etc. would no longer be needed. I think people are smarter than that. We retool and pretty soon we are opening new frontiers and making cars and planes. I would give the book four stars if the author would have supported the premises with more details rather than assume mass hysteria because of the possibility of a new technology that was not even close to being realized.

Ancient Shores. Rarely have I read such an original and exciting work!

Worst Deus Ex ever. It started okay...There was a lot of potential for it to be good...It was not fulfilled. Do not expect anything to be resolved In a satisfactory way. I love McDevitt. He has flaws, but they’re usually bearable. These weren’t. Edit: I saw this book on sale, and went to add a negative review, and saw that I’d already left one. That’s how much I hated this book.

Good fiction, bad humans... In my opinion, good science fiction is what happens to the characters of the story when confronted with a new idea or discovery. It's not the discovery that's important, it's how everyone reacts to it that's makes the story. Well in this book, I think the reactions of the social/political/religious/economic characters, when faced with something that they did not understand and could not control, were dead on exactly what we could expect. In fact, I barely made it through the book, for I was ashamed to be a member of the same species as whom the characters depicted. The ending was not satisfactory for I don't think any of the characters actually learned anything.. It was a coop out, but maybe I missed something because buy the end of the book, I had little empathy or positive feelings for any one in the human race. The writing was good, you can completely come to terms why everyone reacted the way they did, but you certainty won't like it, or wish to be associated with them.

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