The early sections of the novel deal a lot with ship politics, and it's actually pretty interesting due to all the shady plots of insurrection going on behind the captain's back. Some, like the ship's bishop, believe it has always existed. The ship has been traveling through the galaxy for so long in search of a habitable planet that no one really knows the ship's origin. It's told in the first person by Bartolomeo, resident of the upper levels of the generation starship Argonos, which is where the more privileged citizens of the ship reside (government officials, ship crew, etc.), while the bottom levels are reserved for the lower classes. The horrors here are much more psychological than the "slasher in space" feel of the movie, however. Though considering Alien is probably my all-time favorite horror film, and a top two or three science-fiction film ( Blade Runner will always be tops in my book), I may be slightly biased, as this does have a pretty similar feel, in that a seemingly-abandoned alien spaceship is discovered by the crew of a human-occupied ship. I see a lot of mixed reviews here, but to me, Ship of Fools was an extremely eerie and intense hybrid of horror and space opera*.
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