Willful Child

These are the voyages of the starship, A.S.F. Willful Child. Its ongoing mission: to seek out strange new worlds on which to plant the Terran flag, to subjugate and if necessary obliterate new life life-forms, to boldly blow the...And so we join the not-terribly-bright but exceedingly cock-sure Captain Hadrian Sawback - think James T Kirk crossed with 'American Dad' - and his motley crew on board the Starship Willful Child for a series of devil-may-care, near-calamitous and downright chaotic adventures through 'the infinite vastness of interstellar space'... The bestselling author of the acclaimed Malazan Book of the Fallen sequence has taken a life-long passion for 'Star Trek' and transformed it into a hugely entertaining spoof on the whole mankind-exploring-space-for-the-good-of-all-species-but-trashing-stuff-with-a-lot-of-hi-tech-kit-along-the-way type over-blown science fiction adventure. The result is smart. inventive, occasionally OTT and often very funny - a novel that both deftly parodies the genre and pays fond homage to it.

Product details

• Authors: Steven Erikson, Erikson Steven
• Publisher: Bantam UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.08.2015
• EAN: 9780857502445
• ISBN: 978-0-85750-244-5
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 200 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Bantam Press
• Subjects: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy; FICTION / Fantasy / Humorous, FICTION / Science Fiction / General, FICTION / Science Fiction / Humorous, FICTION / Science Fiction / Space Opera, FICTION / Science Fiction / Space Exploration, Science fiction: space exploration, Adventure fiction, Adventure / action fiction