Willful Child

by Steven Erikson

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Pub Date 6 Nov 2014 | Archive Date 9 Dec 2014

Random House UK, Transworld Publishers | Bantam Press

Sci Fi & Fantasy

Description

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.

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Advance Praise

Willful Child is a love letter to 'Star Trek' and its fans - a pitch-perfect tour de force; Erikson walks a very fine line without ever once stumbling. - ROBERT J SAWYER, Huge Award-winning author of Fast Forward and Red Planet Blues

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A wickedly entertaining spoof SF space adventure by Steven Erikson, life-long 'Star Trek' fan and author of the multi-million copy selling 'The Malazan Book of the Fallen' series.

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Steven Erikson is a qualified archaeologist and anthropologist. His debut fantasy novel, Gardens of the Moon, was shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award and introduced readers to his epic, ten book 'Malazan Book of the Fallen' sequence, which has been hailed 'a masterwork of the imagination'. He followed this with Forge of Darkness, the first volume in a new epic fantasy trilogy which takes readers back to the origins of the Malazan world. Steve lives in Victoria, Canada.

To find out more, visit www.malazanempire.com and www.stevenerikson.com