Eifelheim

Over the centuries one small town in Germany has disappeared and never beenresettled.nbspTom a historian and his theoretical physicist girlfriendSharon become i... » 

Over the centuries one small town in Germany has disappeared and never beenresettled.nbspTom a historian and his theoretical physicist girlfriendSharon become interested. By all logic the town should have survived. Whatsso special about Eifelheim? nbspFather Dietrich is the village priest ofEifelheim in the year 1348 when the Black Death is gathering strength but isstill not nearby. Dietrich is an educated man and to his astonishment becomesthe first contact person between humanity and an alien race from a distantstar when their ship crashes in the nearby forest. It is a time of wonders inthe shadow of the plague. Flynn gives us the full richness and strangeness ofmedieval life as well as some terrific aliens. nbspTom and Sharon andFather Deitrich have a strange destiny of tragedy and triumph in this brilliantSF novel. «