

Eifelheim
Author: Michael Flynn
Narrator: Anthony Heald
Unabridged: 17 hr 15 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 01/01/2006
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction
Author: Michael Flynn
Narrator: Anthony Heald
Unabridged: 17 hr 15 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 01/01/2006
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction
Michael Flynn is a science fiction writer with over a dozen books to his name. He is best known for his four-book Firestar series, the critically acclaimed The Wreck of the River of Stars, and the Hugo Award–nominated Eifelheim. A mainstay of Analog SF, Michael's stories have also appeared in Asimov's, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Weird Tales, and other venues. He has won the Robert A. Heinlein Award for his work. He lives in Easton, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Margie.
You come away with a lot of perspectve on the 1300 AD time frame as well as a good sci fi read.
In all fairness, I ought to give one or two more stars to this novel for the following reasons. The sheer amount of research put into the novel to make a complete picture of a small medieval German town and it's surrounding politics, not to mention the great walk-on parts of Occam and the peripheral......more
An interesting take on the First Contact story. This one takes place in the Middle Ages, as an alien ship crash lands in the Black Forest of Germany near the small village of Oberhochwald. Tied in to this tale of the past is one that takes place in the present as two researchers (and lovers) try to......more
Now I know how the physicists must feel! It's not often that a work of science fiction engages with history as a discipline, and not just as setting. Which means it’s not often that my training as a historian almost ruins a book for me. Eifelheim opens on a historian convinced his mathematical model......more