Eifelheim
Michael Flynn, . . Tor, $24.95 (320pp) ISBN 978-0-765-30096-6
A present-day scientific odd couple who are longtime domestic partners, physicist Sharon Nagy and historian Tom Schwoerin, look into the fate of the Black Forest village of the title, which apparently vanished in the plague year 1348, in Flynn's heartbreaking morality play of stranded aliens in medieval Germany. Most of the narrative focuses on the consequences of the discovery in the 14th century by Eifelheim's pastor, Father Dietrich, of a crashed space ship carrying the "Krenken," horrific grasshopperlike aliens. Despite Inquisitorial threats, Dietrich befriends, baptizes and attempts to help the aliens return home. Flynn (
Reviewed on: 08/21/2006
Genre: Fiction
Hardcover - 696 pages - 978-2-253-13499-2
Mass Market Paperbound - 492 pages - 978-0-7653-4035-1
Other - 1 pages - 978-1-4332-8400-7
Paperback - 320 pages - 978-0-7653-1910-4
Pre-Recorded Audio Player - 978-1-4417-0147-3