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 ...
ETA (12/28/12): this one stayed and stayed and stayed with me. Thus, I'm raising it to a five-star book, from my previous waffling and dithering "hovering between three and four for this - so I will think about it for a while" - and this equivocating review. The Good: unique first contact prem...
I'm afraid my review here will be brief - the book is due back at the library today and, to be honest, I've been distracted by a very sick cat and haven't had the time or inclination to focus on reading.That said, overall I found Eifelheim an interesting book and would recommend it. As other reviewe...
I love the idea that we humans could've already made first contact, but it's not common knowledge. This book had an interesting take on that, which is that the humans who meet them may not have called them aliens, or possibly didn't even think of them as aliens at all. Therefore, the record of what...
The story is interesting, but the way that was showed made it boring sometimes. I love science fiction, and hard, and love the explanations (unless I can not be sure if it was made some mistake in them) but in this novel I had the feeling that some of this explanation were and add. Other thing is wh...
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 ...
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