Andreas Eschbach is one of Germany's preeminent science fiction writers. Nine of his novels have been awarded the Kurd-La=witz-Preis, while four have received the prestigious Deutscher Science Fiction Preis.
German SF has recently produced at least one new writer on the world stage: Andreas Eschbach * The New York Review of Science Fiction * 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 * 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 *