Title: Ship of Fools

Title: Ship of Fools Title Record # 21005
Author: Richard Paul Russo
Date: 2001-01-00
Type: NOVEL
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English

Synopsis: A generation ship searching for inhabited planets is drawn by a beacon to a planet where all human residents have died violently; upon leaving, it encounters a mysterious giant ship of alien origin.

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Translated Serializations

Year	Title
2003	Unto Leviathan

Year	Language	Title
2006^ⓘTranslated by Patrick Dusoulier	French	La nef des fous

Year	Language	Title
2002	Italian	L'astronave Dei Dannati (Complete Novel)

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
Win	2002 Dick	Philip K. Dick Award
12	2002 Locus	Best SF Novel

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Ship of Fools	2001-01-00	Richard Paul Russo	Ace Books	0-441-00798-8	$12.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	370	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Bruce Jensen
Ship of Fools	2001-03-00	Richard Paul Russo	Ace Books / SFBC	0-7394-1690-1 / 35724	$10.98^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	370	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Bruce Jensen
Ship of Fools	2002-01-00	Richard Paul Russo	Ace Books	0-441-00893-3	$6.50^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	370	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Bruce Jensen
Urania #1451	2002-10-20	ed. Giuseppe Lippi	Mondadori	1451	€3.55^?€: Euro. ISO code: EUR	330	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	mag	Franco Brambilla
Unto Leviathan	2003-11-00	Richard Paul Russo	Orbit	1-84149-270-1	£6.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	442	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Bruce Jensen
Unto Leviathan	2005-00-00	Richard Paul Russo	Orbit	1-84149-270-1	£6.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	442	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Bruce Jensen
La nef des fous	2006-09-00	Richard Paul Russo	Le Bélial'^?Le Belial'	2-84344-072-6	€22.00^?€: Euro. ISO code: EUR	416	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Alain Brion
Unto Leviathan	2008-09-04	Richard Paul Russo	Orbit	978-0-7481-0922-7	£5.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
La nef des fous	2009-09-00	Richard Paul Russo	Presses Pocket (Presses Pocket - Science Fiction #5908)	978-2-266-16213-5		474	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Pascal Casolari
Ship of Fools	date unknown	Richard Paul Russo	Ace Books	0-441-00798-8	$12.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	370	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Bruce Jensen
Ship of Fools	date unknown	Richard Paul Russo	Ace Books	978-1-101-20798-7	$6.99^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel	Bruce Jensen
Ship of Fools	date unknown	Richard Paul Russo	Ace Books	0-441-00893-3	$6.50^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	370	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Bruce Jensen

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Reviews

Review by Faren Miller (2001) in Locus, #481 February 2001
Review by Nick Gevers (2001) in Interzone, May 2001
Review by David Mead (2001) in The New York Review of Science Fiction, July 2001
Review by Peter Heck (2001) in Asimov's Science Fiction, September 2001
Review by John Clute (2003) in Scores: Reviews 1993 - 2003 , reprinted in:
Scores: Reviews 1993 - 2003 (2016)
Review by Peter Young [as by Pete Young] (2003) in Vector 232 , reprinted in:
Zoo Nation, #4: Thrills (2003)
Review [French] by Thomas Day (2006) in Bifrost, #42
Review [French] by Sandrine Brugot Maillard (2007) in Galaxies, #42
Review by Nick Kanas (2015) in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, November 2015