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Michael F. Flynn (1947–2023)

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Werke von Michael F. Flynn

Gefallene Engel (1991) 1,166 Exemplare
Eifelheim (2006) 1,107 Exemplare
Firestar (1996) 506 Exemplare
In the Country of the Blind (1990) 397 Exemplare
Der Fluss der Sterne (2003) 359 Exemplare
Rogue Star (1998) 353 Exemplare
The January Dancer (2008) 343 Exemplare
Lodestar (2000) 233 Exemplare
Falling Stars (2001) 200 Exemplare
Up Jim River (2010) 148 Exemplare
The Nanotech Chronicles (1991) 116 Exemplare
In the Lion's Mouth (2012) 93 Exemplare
On the Razor's Edge (2013) 47 Exemplare
Captive Dreams (2012) 16 Exemplare
The Iron Shirts (2011) 15 Exemplare
Melodies of the Heart {novella} (2011) 13 Exemplare
The Forest Of Time [novella] (2011) 12 Exemplare
Connexions (2017) 6 Exemplare
Buried Hopes 2 Exemplare
Sand And Iron 1 Exemplar
House Of Dreams 1 Exemplar
Southern Strategy 1 Exemplar
PROBABLY MURDER 1 Exemplar
Cargo 1 Exemplar
The Frog Prince 1 Exemplar
Grave Reservations 1 Exemplar
Great Sweet Mother 1 Exemplar
Remember'd Kisses 1 Exemplar
Washer at the Ford 1 Exemplar
Elmira 1895 1 Exemplar
Werehouse 1 Exemplar

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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection (2005) — Mitwirkender — 529 Exemplare
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection (1996) — Mitwirkender — 417 Exemplare
The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF (1994) — Mitwirkender — 392 Exemplare
The Hard SF Renaissance (2003) — Mitwirkender — 343 Exemplare
Year's Best SF 6 (2001) — Mitwirkender — 279 Exemplare
Year's Best SF 4 (1999) — Mitwirkender — 260 Exemplare
Roads Not Taken: Tales of Alternate History (1998) — Mitwirkender — 252 Exemplare
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection (2012) — Mitwirkender — 239 Exemplare
Year's Best SF 12 (2007) — Mitwirkender — 185 Exemplare
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection (2016) — Mitwirkender — 156 Exemplare
Codominium: Revolt on War World (1992) — Excerpt included — 144 Exemplare
Alternate Generals II (2002) — Mitwirkender — 134 Exemplare
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection (2018) — Mitwirkender — 117 Exemplare
Nanotech! (1998) — Mitwirkender — 108 Exemplare
The Enchanter Completed (2005) — Mitwirkender — 75 Exemplare
Space Opera (2007) — Mitwirkender — 53 Exemplare
Tomorrow Bites (1995) — Mitwirkender — 44 Exemplare
The Stories: Five Years of Original Fiction on tor.com (2013) — Mitwirkender — 38 Exemplare
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. CIX, No. 6 (June 1989) (1989) — Autor, einige Ausgaben28 Exemplare
Mission: Tomorrow (2015) — Mitwirkender — 21 Exemplare
Analog Science Fiction and Fact: Vol. CXX, No. 11 (November 2000) (2000) — Autor, einige Ausgaben10 Exemplare
Galaxy's Edge Magazine Issue 3, July 2013 (2013) — Mitwirkender — 7 Exemplare
Clarkesworld: Issue 140 (May 2018) (2018) — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare

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For this book, I'm breaking my self-imposed rule against giving a 5-star rating without a second read. It is a wonderful melange of medieval history, culture, philosophy, and theology; xenobiology and xenopsychology; and modern theoretical physics. I'm no expert in any of these fields, of course; but I have done some more-than-casual reading the history/philosophy/theology field. Flynn has really done his research. But Eifelheim is never dry or pedantic. The scholarship is intimately woven into the story. And the 14th-century Germans as well as the stranded aliens are rendered in a touching and relatable way, even though both their worldviews are strange to our 21st-century ways of thinking.
[Audiobook note: The reader, Anthony Heald, does an amazing job. I love his rhythms and inflections.]
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Treebeard_404 | 67 weitere Rezensionen | Jan 23, 2024 |
I actually give this 3.5 stars. Say one thing about the author, and this dovetails with my take on his Firestar series: he tells a GREAT story...but boy can he take his time getting to it.

Set in the distant future, in the same universe as the Firestar series, written in a old style; the story covers the chase for an artifact of great power that that is even yet more than it appears.

The story starts of quite slowly, but builds up a solid head of steam going right into the next installment of the series.

Bonus points for concept in the structure of the civilizations and cultures in the Spiral arm and how they are tied by travel.
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Slagenthor | 12 weitere Rezensionen | Jan 10, 2024 |
I read this book hot on the heels of Ken Follet's _Pillars of the Earth_, and, in my mind, Father Dietrich is the same character as Prior Philip. Their personalities, struggles, and world are very similar. I most enjoyed Father Dietrich coming to terms with scientific concepts (like space travel and electricity), alien anatomy, and religious concepts in the context of his ever widening knowledge of the universe.


 
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jennifergeran | 67 weitere Rezensionen | Dec 23, 2023 |
Eifelheim has a simple premise—aliens crash-land in medieval Germany and can't get home, plot ensues. Good, yes?

At its best, this novel invites comparisons with Connie Willis's Doomsday Book, with its unique blend of genres and vivid evocation of the past. The history is honestly more compelling than the aliens, and Oberhochwald, with its cyclical seasons and frontier-like atmosphere of isolation and self-sufficiency, is as memorable a character as Dietrich, a scientifically-minded priest whose attempts to include the stranded aliens in the life of the village result in an unusual first contact story.

Like Willis's novels, Eifelheim's careful attention to detail means it's a bit slow and at times ends up in the weeds (and by "weeds," I mean "Habsburgs"). Its linguistic playfulness is almost too much, except that I pretty much enjoy every time Flynn drops in a medieval precursor to modern slang or has Dietrich use his scholar's Latin and Greek to accidentally coin words like "microphone" and "circuit." On the whole, this is a novel that's almost too clever by half, except when it surprises you by breaking your heart.

My only complaint is with the frame story, which follows two academics in our near future who accidentally uncover Dietrich's story. These chapters were originally a separate novella, and they did pretty much nothing for me, particularly as the characters are unpleasant to no end. I can't decide what I'm grumpier about, a librarian who apparently has a crush on her arrogant, boundary-challenged patron (in reality, I assure you she'd be giving him rude nicknames and laughing about him in the break room), or that the self-same patron is a historian whose discipline involves doing fancy things with big data yet begins the novel totally ignorant of where his data comes from. Happily I think you could just skip all the "Now" chapters and still enjoy the book.
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raschneid | 67 weitere Rezensionen | Dec 19, 2023 |

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