{"id":566,"date":"2002-06-06T02:13:58","date_gmt":"2002-06-06T10:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/06\/06\/ship-of-fools\/"},"modified":"2022-03-07T10:26:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T18:26:55","slug":"ship-of-fools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/06\/06\/ship-of-fools\/","title":{"rendered":"Ship of Fools"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16126,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/0441007988\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/0441007988\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0441007988\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"'Ship of Fools', by Richard Paul Russo\">Ship of Fools<\/a> is a good, though not excellent, sci-fi novel following a group of people on a deep-space ship wandering the universe looking for a home. Their travels bring them to a planet where they discover a staggeringly disturbing massacre, the investigation of which leads them to an alien ship &#8212; and even more problems.<\/p>\n<p>While the overall plot is certainly interesting, it was more of the minor details that I really enjoyed, from the makeup of the social classes within the multi-generational starship to the integration of religion into the characters and the story. Unfortunately, there&#8217;s no real satisfying ending to the book, leaving me to wonder if there may be a sequel &#8212; or sequels &#8212; down the line. Overall, not bad, with some interesting passages and some occasionally beautiful imagery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good, though not excellent, sci-fi novel following a group of people on a deep-space ship wandering the universe looking for a home. Their travels bring them to a planet where they discover a staggeringly disturbing massacre, the investigation of which leads them to an alien ship &mdash; and even more problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036],"tags":[2190],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-richard-paul-russo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}