Merely the elected captain of the Argonos, which has been wandering for generation after a disaster killed many of its crew and destroyed valuable records of its past, Costa's leadership and Aguilera's physical safety is threatened by the ship's quasi-Christian religious faction, headed by Bishop Soldano. Nikos Costa, aboard the generation ship Argonos.
The story follows the struggle of Bartolomo Aguilera, unofficial counselor and lieutenant to Capt. (Jan.Ship of Fools is the 2001 Gothic space mystery written by Richard Paul Russo. Perhaps a sequel will supply some answers. The hoped-for resolution never occurs, the religious questions remain unexplored, while the ending proves an all-too-familiar shaggy-God story. Here the book becomes largely static and uninvolving. Bartolomeo is imprisoned, but when a mysterious ship, seemingly imbued with evil, shows up, he is released and named leader of an exploration team. Just as it was impossible to avoid brushing against the hanging skeletons, so was it impossible to avoid stepping on bone or in thick, sticky liquid as I moved through the room."" A mutiny follows. There the crew finds a Dante-esque scene in a chamber located deep within a jungle: ""There were hundreds of bones scattered about the floor, strips of decayed flesh, pools and smears of viscous fluid. Finally the ship lands on an unknown planet. Bartolomeo Aguilera, the story's narrator, gives a haunting picture of life on the Argonos, a starship that is home to generations of humans born aboard her no one remembers the ship's origins-its birthplace may have been Earth-but it drifts year after year ""almost at random through the galaxy,"" without apparent purpose or goal. Dick Award-winner Russo fails to deliver a real climax and leaves the plot unresolved in this initially suspenseful but ultimately disappointing novel. After raising some tantalizing religious issues, Philip K.
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