A tale of empire, indoctrination, and extravagant revenge, that begins on a world where men dedicate their lives to weaving excruciatingly complicated carpets out of their wives' hair -- Rosanna Mclaughlin * The White Review, Books of the Year *
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 *
German SF has recently produced at least one new writer on the world stage: Andreas Eschbach * The New York Review of Science Fiction *
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 *
