The Hair Carpet Weavers

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

A world-class SF voice

Locus

The Carpet Makers will blow you away ... clever, insightful, entertaining and satisfying

Analog

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

German SF has recently produced at least one new writer on the world stage: Andreas Eschbach

The New York Review of Science Fiction

An outstanding work

John Clute

A magnum opus ... Even more astounding, it was Eschbach's debut

Kirkus

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