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Willful Child

This series playfully spoofs and fondly pays homage to the science fiction genre. It follows devil-may-care, near calamitous, and downright chaotic escapades across the infinite vastness of interstellar space. It's a smart, inventive, and hugely entertaining adventure that explores humanity's journey through the cosmos. Prepare for a blend of humor, action, and gentle critique of space opera tropes.

Willful Child

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    Willful Child

    • 352 pages
    • 13 hours of reading
    3.6(74)Add rating

    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.

    Willful Child