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-forms, to boldly blow the.... And so we join the not-terribly-bright but exceedingly cock-sure Captain Hadrian Sawback?a kind of 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 his life-long 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-hi-tech-kit-along-the-way type over-blown adventure. The result is this smart, inventive, occasionally wildly OTT and often very funny novel that deftly parodies the genre while also paying fond homage to it.