5/24/2023 0 Comments Eifelheim by michael flynn![]() ![]() ![]() There are certain expectations and assumptions we bring to a story like this, which are heightened by the frame narrative of cliologist Tom (a science that sounds made up, but isn’t) and his physicist girlfriend Sharon. But Michael Flynn takes that idea beyond anything you’d expect for a potboiler sci-fi novel, creating a meticulously researched and wonderfully written combination of historical fiction and science fiction. It’s an immediately engaging concept, which would be worth checking out no matter who was writing it and no matter how it turned out. ![]() ![]() That’s the elevator pitch for Eifelheim: a first contact story set in medieval Germany. In the modern day, historical researcher Tom uncovers evidence of a village that inexplicably vanished in the 14th century – not unusual in the era of the Black Death, but this region was never resettled, leaving behind only rumours of evil demons and cursed ground. Venturing to investigate, parish priest Dietrich discovers a group of strange travellers have arrived injured, frightened, and terrifyingly alien. In the year 1348, in the village of Oberhochwald in the Black Forest, a terrible thunder and fire tears through the nearby woods despite the cloudless sky. ![]()
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