The novel is a series of interlinked short stories, more or less. As of 2006, his only novel translated into English was Die Haarteppichknüpfer, published in 2005 as The Carpet Makers.Įven better the second (or possibly the third) time around. In 2003, his novel Eine Billion Dollar was adapted for German radio. In 2002, his novel Das Jesus Video was adapted for German television. His novels have also been translated into a number of languages, including English, French, Italian, Russian, Polish, Turkish and Japanese. Five of his novels have won the Kurd-Laßwitz-Award, one of the most prestigious awards in the German SF scene. His first professional publication was the short story Dolls, published in 1991 in German computing magazine C't. He has been writing since he was 12 years old.
Even if some of his stories do not exactly fall into the SF genre, they usually feature elements of the fantastic.Įschbach studied aerospace engineering at the University of Stuttgart and later worked as a software engineer. "Andreas Eschbach is incontestably the shooting star of the German SF scene.Andreas Eschbach is a German writer who mostly writes science fiction. "Eschbach: take it and read it." - Frank Schirrmacher, FAZ on The Carpet Makers "Andreas Eschbach is a phenomenon." - Lesen & Leute 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 "With his first work Eschbach shows that the German SF is not dead." - Olive Faulhaber on The Carpet Makers
Eschbach is likely to become an international phenomenon." - Booklist Despite being broken into short episodes, the novel is one fluidly integrated story. "Enthusiastically introduced by no less than Orson Scott Card, this far-future novel does credit to everyone concerned, starting with its German author.
"A considerable achievement, and one that suggests the presence of a world-class SF voice that we ought to know about." - Locus "Eschbach's first novel will blow you away.
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