Richard Paul Russo
Born
in The United States
May 07, 1954
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Ship of Fools
18 editions
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published
2001
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Destroying Angel
13 editions
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1992
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The Rosetta Codex
16 editions
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published
2005
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Carlucci 3-in-1
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2003
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Carlucci's Edge
8 editions
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published
1995
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Carlucci's Heart
11 editions
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published
1997
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Subterranean Gallery
4 editions
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published
1989
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Terminal Visions
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published
2000
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Just Drive, She Said
2 editions
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published
1992
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The Open Boat
3 editions
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2003
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“ideas, different ways of looking at the world.” “Different beliefs?” “Yes, different beliefs, too. But we don’t have contact with other people. We go far too many years without seeing anyone other than ourselves. In fact, I do not think it is a good thing that we spend our entire lives on this ship.” “Why not?” I was amazed at how open she was with me, and I wanted to encourage her to keep talking. “We stagnate, and we have no history.” “We”
― Ship of Fools
― Ship of Fools
“Mysteries we did find, and they were many. But I learned that something can be too mysterious, too alien - so mysterious or alien as to approach being meaningless:”
― Ship of Fools
― Ship of Fools
“I can imagine the second part of the verse as perhaps once mistranscribed, or misunderstood—maybe even out of fear. Change it ever so slightly, just a couple of words, and it becomes something very different.” He closed his eyes, and quoted the changed verse. “But unto Leviathan thou gavest the seventh part, namely the moist; and hast kept him to devour whom thou wilt, and when.” He paused again. “Now we have something that appears to describe our alien ship quite well.” I”
― Ship of Fools
― Ship of Fools
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