EIFELHEIM (2006) BY MICHAEL FLYNN

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Eifelheim is a science fiction novel by American author 
Michael Flynn, published in 2006. It was nominated for 
a Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2007. It first appeared 
as a novella in 1986, which was a nominee for Best Novella 
Hugo Award in 1987.

PLOT OUTLINE:

Over the centuries, one small town in Germany has disappeared 
and never been resettled. Tom, a historian, and his theoretical 
physicist girlfriend Sharon, become interested. By all logic, 
the town should have survived. What's so special about Eifelheim?

Father Dietrich is the village priest of Eifelheim, in the year 1348, 
when the Black Death is gathering strength but is still not nearby. 
Dietrich is an educated man, and to his astonishment becomes the 
first contact person between humanity and an alien race from a 
distant star, when their ship crashes in the nearby forest. It is a 
time of wonders, in the shadow of the plague. Flynn gives us the full 
richness and strangeness of medieval life, as well as some terrific 
aliens.

Tom and Sharon, and Father Deitrich have a strange destiny of tragedy 
and triumph in Eifelheim, the brilliant science fiction novel by 
Michael Flynn