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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.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and epic.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Jack McDevitt
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 397
- Publisher
- HarperPrism, EOS, HarperCollins
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780061052071
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Jack McDevitt (born April 14, 1935) is an American science fiction author.
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