Willful Child
About this book
From the New York Times Bestselling author Steven Erikson comes a new science fiction novel of devil-may-care, near calamitous and downright chaotic adventures through the infinite vastness of interstellar space.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-forms, to boldly blow the...And so we join the not-terribly-bright but exceedingly ck-sure Captain Hadrian Sawback 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 New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Malazan Book of the Fallen sequence has taken his lifelong passion for Star Trek and transformed it into a smart, inventive, and hugely entertaining spoof on the whole mankind-exploring-space-for-the-good-of-all-species-but-trashing-stuff-with-a-lot-of-high-tech-gadgets-along-the-way, overblown adventure. The result is an SF novel that deftly parodies the genre while also paying fond homage to it.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Reader Profile
3.8/5 · 23 readers · 344 pages · ≈ 6 h 22 m · Light
How long does it take to read Willful Child?
About ≈ 6 h 22 m — 344 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is Willful Child?
344 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is Willful Child?
It sits on the Science Fiction, Fiction shelves.
Is Willful Child in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Who wrote Willful Child?
Steven Erikson.