Willful Child

Name: Willful Child
Brand: Transworld Publishers Ltd
SKU: 9780857502445
Price: 15.73 EUR
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English

By (author): Steven Erikson

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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Weight: 241g
Dimensions: 127 x 198mm
Publication Date: 27 Aug 2015
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780857502445

About Steven Erikson

Archaeologist and anthropologist Steven Erikson is the bestselling author of the genre-defining The Malazan Book of the Fallen a multi-volume epic fantasy that's been hailed a masterwork of the imagination and one of the top ten fantasy series of all time. The first novel in the series Gardens of the Moon was short-listed for the World Fantasy Award. He has also written several novellas set in the same world. Forge of Darkness is the first Kharkanas novel and takes readers back to the origins of the Malazan world. Fall of Light continues this epic tale. A lifelong science fiction reader he has also written fiction affectionately parodying a long-running SF television series and Rejoice a novel of first contact. The God is Not Willing is the opening chapter in a new sequence The Tales of Witness and is set in the world of the Malazan Empire ten years after the events recounted in The Crippled God.Steven Erikson lives in Victoria Canada. To find out more visit www.steven-erikson.org and he's also on Facebook: Steven EriksonAuthor.