# Willful Child

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- Book: [Willful Child](https://www.bookquiver.com/steven-erikson/willful-child) ([Willful Child.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/steven-erikson/willful-child.md))
- Authors: [Steven Erikson](https://www.bookquiver.com/steven-erikson)
- Publisher: bantam
- ISBN: 978-08-5750-244-5
- Pages: 352
- Published: 2015-08-27
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## 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.