They are excited about the implications their findings will have on each of their fields of study. Uni-Verse: One Song.Įifelheim by Michael Flynn opens in modern times with a historical mathematician and a physicist, a husband and wife, Matt and Sharon, who study a medieval German settlement called Eifelheim trying to find out why this town disappeared after the outbreak of the Black Death in the 14th century. This author Understands the Principle and Law of The Uni-Verse. When that which is Perfection is come, forms and traditions and laws of man will have fulfilled their purpose and will be done away with. Hope: When all else seems lost, it is the one thing you can keep There is food which is Nourishing.and that which merely fills I have read thousands of books in my time.this was an intensely beautiful experience for me and I thank the author immensely. I will say no is up to you to say nay, or yea. But the reader will need this preamble to link to what happens next.

It reads more like a textbook on history. The first part of the book is slow going but necessary. Do we get to know them and enquire of their ideologies? What happens when those from other worlds come here? Do we kill them, or make them friends.

It is so thoughtfully written and profound that at times I found myself weeping. If you are looking for the traditional Science Fiction/Fantasy.this isn't it. Tom and Sharon, and Father Deitrich have a strange destiny of tragedy and triumph in Eifelheim, the brilliant science fiction novel by Michael Flynn.Īt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. Flynn gives us the full richness and strangeness of medieval life, as well as some terrific aliens. It is a time of wonders, in the shadow of the plague.

Dietrich is an educated man, and to his astonishment becomes the first contact person between humanity and an alien race from a distant star, when their ship crashes in the nearby forest. What's so special about Eifelheim?įather Dietrich is the village priest of Eifelheim, in the year 1348, when the Black Death is gathering strength but is still not nearby. By all logic, the town should have survived. Tom, a historian, and his theoretical physicist girlfriend Sharon, become interested. Over the centuries, one small town in Germany has disappeared and never been resettled. The alien world of medieval Europe lives again, transformed by the physics of the future, by a winner of the Heinlein Award

Eifelheim by michael flynn