The Hair Carpet Weavers

By: Andreas Eschbach

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Paperback | 20 October 2020 | Edition Number 1

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A mind-expanding space opera from one of Germany's most acclaimed science-fiction writers.

In the dusty wastes of a far-flung planet, strange artisans toil. Like their fathers before them, they tie intricate knots out of the hair of their wives and daughters, slowly forming carpets. Delicate and unique, each carpet requires an entire lifetime of work - and all will be sold to pave the Emperor's palace. Then, one day, the empire falls. Soon, strange men begin to arrive from the stars, in search of the carpets' true destination. What they discover will astonish them all...

Combining brilliant world-building with an irresistible sense of mystery, Andreas Eschbach's acclaimed space opera is also a compelling meditation on faith, fundamentalism and the meaning of life itself.

About the Author

Andreas Eschbach is one of Germany's preeminent science fiction writers.

Nine of his novels have been awarded the Kurd-La=witz-Preis, while four have received the prestigious Deutscher Science Fiction Preis

Industry Reviews

German SF has recently produced at least one new writer on the world stage: Andreas Eschbach
* The New York Review of Science Fiction *

A novel of ideas that evokes complex emotions through the working out of an intricate and ultimately satisfying plot, with echoes of Gene Wolfe, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Isaac Asimov
* The New York Times Book Review *

Eschbach is a novelist with vision, with compassion, and with a sense of tragedy, of character, of spectacle, and of human possibility, and also human inevitability ... An unforgettable, beautiful, perpetually entertaining novel
-- Orson Scott Card

An outstanding work
-- John Clute

A world-class SF voice
* Locus *

The Carpet Makers will blow you away ... clever, insightful, entertaining and satisfying
* Analog *

A magnum opus ... Even more astounding, it was Eschbach's debut
* Kirkus *

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