The Carpet Makers Review

A good concept and a very good execution.

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. It speaks to the depths of the meanings of religion and faith and truth and to the danger and terror of absolute power. The concept is epic and deep the writing execution is resembling the carpet weaving in the story itself. Carpet makers take several wives each chosen for the beauty and color of her hair.

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. 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. Since a carpet maker can have only one heir he is obliged to kill any surplus male children. The idea behind the story is in my opinion something unique.

The carpet makers andreas eschbach author trans. 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. Tor 24 95 304p isbn 978 0 7653 0593 0.

The carpet makers tcm has both good quality.