The Carpet Makers Review

Traders take the carpets to the spaceport where they are loaded aboard imperial ships and conveyed to the emperor s palace.

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 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. Carpet makers take several wives each chosen for the beauty and color of her hair.

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. The carpet makers was the second novel by him that i read after lord of all things. From the german by doryl jensen. A good concept and a very good execution.

While the carpet makers is technically science fiction it is a novel that addresses the wide variants of human nature of the best and worst people can be capable of. The carpet makers tcm has both good quality. Since a carpet maker can have only one heir he is obliged to kill any surplus male children. It is a novel whose messages and story will haunt after it is finished.

Tor 24 95 304p isbn 978 0 7653 0593 0.