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? Father 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. The alien world of medieval Europe lives again, transformed by the physics of the future, by a winner of the Heinlein Award Over the centuries, one small town in Germany has disappeared and never been resettled.
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