The Carpet Makers (Orson Scott Card Present's S.) - Hardcover

Eschbach, Andreas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0765305933 ISBN 13: 9780765305930

Publisher: Tor Books, 2005

Synopsis

Since the time of pre-history, carpet makers have tied intricate knots to form carpets for the court of the Emperor. These carpets are made from the hairs of the weaver's wives and daughters; they are so detailed and fragile that each carpet maker finishes only a single carpet in his entire lifetime. This art has descended from father to son since the beginning of time itself. But one day the empire of the God Emperor vanishes and strangers begin to arrive from the stars to follow the trace of the hair carpets. What these strangers discover is beyond all belief, more than anything they would have ever imagined...

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Review:

"With his first work Eschbach shows that the German SF is not dead."--Olive Faulhaber on The Carpet Makers "Andreas Eschbach is one of the most acclaimed sf writers to emerge in Germany in the past decade."--The Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy on The Carpet Makers "Andreas Eschbach is a phenomenon."--Lesen & Leute on The Carpet Makers "Eschbach: take it and read it." --Frank Schirrmacher, FAZ on The Carpet Makers "Andreas Eschbach is incontestably the shooting star of the German SF scene."--Heyne Science Fiction Yearbook on The Carpet Makers

About the Author:

"Andreas Eschbach "was born 1959 in Ulm, Germany. In 1996, his first novel, " Die Haarteppichknupfer" ("The Hair Carpet Makers"), won one of the highest awards of German science fiction, the SFCD-Literaturpreis. His second novel, "Solarstation," won the other great German science fiction award, the Kurd Lawitz Preis. His third novel, "Jesus Video," won both of them, became a nationwide bestseller in 2000, and was turned into a movie in 2002. His first translation into another language was in 1998, when "Die Haarteppichknupfer" was published in France as "Des milliards des tapis de cheveux." It was not only the first German science fiction novel to be published in France after 18 years, it also won two literary prizes in France and Belgium. Several novels and short stories have been translated since then, into French, Italian, Czech, Japanese, Russian, and Turkish. Eschbach currently lives in Stuttgart with his family.

About this edition

• Publisher: Tor Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0765305933
• ISBN 13: 9780765305930
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320