The Carpet Makers Review

It takes place in the far distant future but it doesn t go down tried and true path of spaceships and blasters.

The carpet makers review. The carpet makers andreas eschbach author trans. Usually one book is enough to comprehend appreciate and like an author but after finishing the carpet makers i realized the scope of eschbach s imaginative horizon and i came to like him even more. A good concept and a very good execution. Carpet makers take several wives each chosen for the beauty and color of her hair.

The carpet makers was the second novel by him that i read after lord of all things. Since a carpet maker can have only one heir he is obliged to kill any surplus male children. The concept is epic and deep the writing execution is resembling the carpet weaving in the story itself. The idea behind the story is in my opinion something unique.

It speaks to the depths of the meanings of religion and faith and truth and to the danger and terror of absolute power. Tor 24 95 304p isbn 978 0 7653 0593 0. Traders take the carpets to the spaceport where they are loaded aboard imperial ships and conveyed to the emperor s palace. It is a novel whose messages and story will haunt after it is finished.

I only gave the carpet makers 3 stars not because this was a bad story it is not that it is a good story and interesting read.