
Ship of Fools
#1616 of 8,085 books · #120 in Horror
Won the Philip K. Dick Award (2002). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 1 other award.
After centuries of wandering through the galaxy in search of other life, the crew of the starship Argonos is lured by an unidentified transmission to a nearby planet, where they come face to face with a haunting alien mystery.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- ISBN-13
- 9780441008933
- Topics
- First contact with alien lifeSpace explorationMystery
Awards
- Philip K. Dick AwardWon(2002)
- Locus Award for Best Science Fiction NovelShortlisted(2002)
Other awarded books from Richard Paul Russo
- Subterranean Gallery (1989)1 win · 8 score
- Destroying Angel (1992)0 wins · 3 score
- Carlucci's Edge (2019)0 wins · 2 score
- Carlucci's Heart (2019)0 wins · 2 score
- The Rosetta Codex (2005)0 wins · 2 score
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