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.
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.
