In 1349, one little town in Germany disappeared and was hardly ever resettled. Tom, a contemporary historian, and his theoretical physicist girlfriend, Sharon, become interested. By all reasoning, the town should have survived, but it didn’t. Why? What was unique about Eifelheim it utterly disappeared a lot more than six hundred years ago?

In 1348, as the Black Loss of life is gathering strength across Europe, Dad Deitrich may be the priest of the village that may come to be known as Eifelheim. A guy educated in research and philosophy, he is astonished to be the first get in touch with between humanity and an alien race from a distant celebrity when their interstellar ship accidents in the close by forest.

Tom, Sharon, and Father Deitrich have a strange and intertwined future of tragedy and triumph within this amazing novel from the winner of the Robert A. Heinlein Honor.