A review by sweetpeppah
The Carpet Makers by Andreas Eschbach

4.0

English translation from German. It's good, along the lines of Ursula LeGuin, who I adore. It's fairly poetic, and I'm not sure whether to thank the translator or the original author for that! It's also *very* political and philosophical. By example, not by preaching. The whole book is serious little vignettes of various people involved one way or another in a galactic revolution. It's not really about the drama of the revolution, but instead how you can control a population and how populations deal with change. It covers a huge amount of political and psychological ground, fairly efficiently. So efficiently that I think each storyline probably could have been a whole novel on its own! But I like the way they fit together and the last thing we need is another sweeping, endless, speculative saga. :)