Eifelheim
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781441701473 (1441701478)
Publish date: October 1st 2009
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Edition language: English
Eifelheim turns the usual less technologically-advanced culture meets advanced alien culture trope on its head by making the less technologically-advanced culture mediaeval Germans and filtering all those typical advanced SF concepts through a mediaeval mindset and vocabulary. I mean, you have an al...
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 ...
Kind of over long and rather tedious, but also compelling.
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