![]() Tom and Sharon, and Father Deitrich, have a strange and intertwined destiny of tragedy and triumph in this brilliant SF novel by the winner of the Robert A. ![]() ![]() It is a time of wonders, in the shadow of the plague. Acclaimed SF writer Flynn (Eifelheim) delivers an epic tale of adventure, intrigue. This works beautifully with the questions of religion and belief in the novel, as well as the manorial system. Deitrich is an educated man, knows science and philosophy, and to his astonishment becomes the first contact between humanity and an alien race from a distant star when their interstellar ship crashes in the nearby forest. Flynn establishes a naturally hierarchical bent for his aliens, and either through nature or through the effects of their translation device gives them a very literal attitude. What's was special about Eifelheim that it utterly disappeared more than 600 years ago?įather Deitrich is the village priest of Oberhochwald, the village that will soon gain the name of Teufelheim, in later years corrupted to Eifelheim, in the year 1348, when the Black Death is gathering strength across Europe but is still not nearby. By all logic, the town should have survived, but it didn't and that violates everything Tom knows about history. ![]() Tom, a contemporary historian, and his theoretical physicist girlfriend Sharon, become interested. ![]() In 1349, one small town in Germany disappeared and has never been resettled. ![]()
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