Quantum physics, first contact with bug-like aliens, Jesuits, and the Black Death--what's not to like? Sure, the interweaving of the contemporary and historical strands is uneven at times, and I believe in the reality of the medieval characters and aliens more than the modern-day scholars, but at i...
So here's the thing about this book. It is in places very interesting, the aliens are well conceptualized, the medieval setting is fully researched, there are some complex characters, and the notion of describing an alien encounter using the philosophical concepts and world view of the fourteenth c...
The storyline is quite interesting, as an "alternative history" book. I especially liked the detail of medieval times, as well as showing an "enlightened" priest during that time, although putting modern scientific terms into medieval terms/understanding gets a little cumbersome. The "today" storyl...
F:AUDIO BOOKSEifelheimBlurb - Mathematical historian Tom Schwoerin becomes obsessed with Eifelheim, a medieval German town that mysteriously vanished during the plague. Tom uncovers evidence that fourteenth-century priest Pastor Dietrichencountered aliens--which validates interdimensional-travel the...
When I was fourteen, and going through the obligatory foray into Chaucer that occurs in every freshman English class in America, my dad sat me down and told me about the Black Plague: a third to half of Europe's population dead, the end of serfdom, flagellents, the Avignon papacy, medieval medicine,...
I'd say that 3 stars if a fair rating for this book. First of all, it's almost like 2 separate stories. There's the historical narrative and the present day narrative.The historical is by far the stronger story and that makes this book lopsided. The medieval town is fully fleshed out and holds mo...
A classic first-contact novel, and Flynn displays tremendous talent for creating (and gets readers to really grapple with) characters who live in alien paradigms. That's actually a primary reason for my love of this genre. Oh, sure, I like the evil-conquest-blow-shit-up-War-of-the-Worlds stuff. Bu...
Hard science fiction tends to elude me. First of all, I feel like I’m having to make too much of an effort to understand the science of the stories, but I’m a pretty smart guy, and besides, the stories usually work without the reader knowing all the details of the science. Secondly, hard science fic...
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