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Eifelheim (Hardcover)

by Michael Flynn (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Tor Books (17 Oct 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0765300966
  • ISBN-13: 978-0765300966
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.3 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 646,854 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Clash of world-views, 13 Mar 2008
By Nicholas Whyte (Oud Heverlee, Belgium) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eifelheim (Paperback)
Flynn's The Wreck of the River of Stars was one of the best sf books I read last year, and I had high expectations of this Hugo nominee: a story of aliens landing in 14th century Germany, and the contemporary historian (and his physicist girlfriend) who works out what happened way back then. Flynn puts a lot of effort into creating a believable 14th-century world, with a relatively harmonious relationship between religion and science depicted; some of the best passages are where the central character (the village priest) and the aliens try to make sense of each others' world-views in terms of their own. He has tried hard also (not always successfully) to catch the linguistic flavour of the period. I didn't enjoy Eifelheim quite as much as River of Stars, though; I felt that Flynn's occasional expositions of his characters' motivations didn't work so well here, and I found the shift from omniscient narrator to tight first-person at the end a bit jarring.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting premise, dull execution, 11 Jun 2009
By Christopher Burns "chrisgb" (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eifelheim (Paperback)
While carefully written to a high standard, I really struggled to summon up the effort to finish this book, and put it down thinking that, well, it could all just have been so much more interesting. The end is unusually satisfying, but as far as I'm aware, Flynn hasn't chosen to pursue the characters or story any further, although the culmination of the plot was ripe for further exploitation.

I'm not sure I'd want to read it, though, if it's as similarly and oddly dull as Eifelheim.
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