If we widen our focus from science fiction to fiction, we can then add "science fiction" as a sixth motif with which to look at this novel.įirst contact: We have met the alien and. At least five sciencefictional motifs congregate here: (1) first contact, (2) the colonization of space, (3) generation ships, (4) anthropogenic destruction of the Earth, (5) the far future. It describes the events surrounding the ship's discovery of a deserted human outpost on a planet many on board the ship want to colonize and, shortly thereafter, its first contact with evidence of intelligent alien life: an apparently derelict spaceship clearly of non-human design. It takes place on a spaceship, the Argonos, which is the only home its inhabitants and generations of their ancestors have ever known.
Richard Paul Russo's Ship of Fools is a science fiction novel set in an unspecified far-future, long after the Earth has been made uninhabitable, presumably because of human mismanagement. Review | Ship of Fools by Richard Paul Russo
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