![]() Even then, the book is written in the same linear and descriptive way, despite being in the first person. Somewhere in the second half of the book the plot veers slightly towards Event Horizon, an opportunity to make some biblical references. The low focus on technology and the way people are thinking and acting increases the feeling that this is something futuristic only by accident, and the reality of it is some feudal world, only milder than one would expect those dark times to have been. ![]() ![]() Add to this that the main character is called Bartolomeo and he is on board of a ship with no history and going nowhere in particular, where there is always a struggle between the captain and the bishop and the people of the lower class, and you kind of get the impression you are reading a Spanish crewman ship log adapted to science fiction. It reads a lot like a journal, written in the first person, with little (or badly evoked) emotional involvement or dynamic action. Ship of Fools is a sci-fi book written by Richard Paul Russo. ![]()
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