![]() ![]() One day the Argonos picks up a signal originating from a planet capable of human habitation, dubbed Antioch. Aguilera is the closest confidant of the ship’s captain, Nikos, and is distrusted by all because of it, in particular the scheming Bishop Soldano, the current head of the Church. The novel’s protagonist is Bartolomeo Aguilera, an orphan with severe physical deformities that he compensates for with a mechanical exoskeleton. Earth is no longer suitable for habitation. The Argonos has been floating through space for hundreds of years, so long that its original mission has been forgotten by those aboard. The book begins aboard a massive spaceship called the Argonos. Nick Gevers wrote in a 2000 interview that Russo’s writings “are characterized by an understated intensity and an affecting compassion their deft painterly depictions of the extreme edges of human emotion and experience are carefully observed and crafted.” Gevers’ description applies equally well to Ship of Fools, published in 2001. Frank Carlucci, entitled Destroying Angel (1992), Carlucci’s Edge (1995), and Carlucci’s Heart (1997). He is best known for a trilogy of novels centering on the character of Lt. Dick Award and was nominated for the Arthur C. ![]() His second novel, Subterranean Gallery (1989), won the Philip K. His first novel, Inner Eclipse, followed in 1988. His first short story, “Firebird Suite,” appeared in Amazing Stories in 1981. ![]()
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