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7. What do you think about the ending? Did you expect it? Do you find it appropriate? Or would you change it? In which way?

The ending reminds me very much to Kristin daughter of Lavrans and the seventh seal was directed by Ingmar Bergman.

Part of the ending was expected, as we knew from the start that the plague went through the village. I was expecting some additional reason why the place was never repopulated. By the end of the book, so many people had been familiar with the aliens and the plague had affected so many other places, that I don't see it as a reason to shun the area for centuries.

Mariangel wrote: "Part of the ending was expected, as we knew from the start that the plague went through the village. I was expecting some additional reason why the place was never repopulated. By the end of the bo..."

To be fair, a substantial number of those who saw the aliens as rational beings died of the plague. Those who didn't tended to see them as demons. Though I agree that it seems unlikely it would be shunned for centuries.

The real ending (in the NOW time) is pure science fiction. I have said somewhere else that the NOW time should have been called TOMORROW.

Manuel wrote: "The real ending (in the NOW time) is pure science fiction. I have said somewhere else that the NOW time should have been called TOMORROW."

I totally agree. The end of the present with Tom, Judy and Lurm is a possibility a long term.

Finding the precise grave and what they dug up in a day (!) is beyond my credulity. And I must have missed the soldiers finding it earlier.

And I don't see how Tom could piece together all this from such fragmentary historical traces, even with all the fortuitous bits.

Jill wrote: "Finding the precise grave and what they dug up in a day (!) is beyond my credulity. And I must have missed the soldiers finding it earlier."

I agree.

As for the soldiers, they are mentioned in 1 NOW Sharon regarding a document titled "Dracula Cult Finds New Grave."

Thank you for the reference. But it leaves so much unexplained. What were soldiers doing poking around there?

Jill wrote: "Thank you for the reference. But it leaves so much unexplained. What were soldiers doing poking around there?"

The Sharon's progamme did not indicarles the location of Oberchwald, or Eifelheim?

Jill wrote: "Thank you for the reference. But it leaves so much unexplained. What were soldiers doing poking around there?"

I don't recall off hand if it gave a time, but there have been large numbers of U.S. soldiers in Germany for quite some time, and they even after the war they train doing maneuvers in the countryside. Germany doesn't have the huge open spaces we do in the U.S. where we can set up huge bases for training. My dad told me about some farmers finding a tank in the woods that had been abandoned by its crew and not noticed as missing by the army for several years.

John wrote: "Jill wrote: "Thank you for the reference. But it leaves so much unexplained. What were soldiers doing poking around there?"

...there have been large numbers of U.S. soldiers in Germany for quite some time, and they even after the war they train doing maneuvers in the countryside"

Yes, the book ("Eifelheim") states that the soldiers who discovered the grave were on maneuvers.