![]() ![]() ![]() In one, Tom Schwoerin, a cliologist from the near future (a time referred to. Book Overview In 1349, one small town in Germany disappeared and has never been resettled. Front cover for the book Eifelheim by Michael Flynn. Two stories are interwoven in Michael Flynns brilliant novel Eifelheim. I didn't enjoy Eifelheim quite as much as River of Stars, though I felt that Flynn's occasional expositions of his characters' motivations didn't work so well here, and I found the shift from omniscient narrator to tight first-person at the end a bit jarring. We found 15 books set in Black Forest and 21 others set nearby. He has tried hard also ( not always successfully) to catch the linguistic flavour of the period. Unless you have a great interest into this kind of science fiction, Ill have to give this book a thumbs down. Flynn puts a lot of effort into creating a believable 14th-century world, with a relatively harmonious relationship between religion and science depicted some of the best passages are where the central character (the village priest) and the aliens try to make sense of each others' world-views in terms of their own. Flynn's The Wreck of the River of Stars was one of the best sf books I read last year, and I had high expectations of this Hugo nominee: a story of aliens landing in 14th century Germany, and the contemporary historian (and his physicist girlfriend) who works out what happened way back then. ![]()
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