Willful Child The Search for Spark, Steven Erikson
Willful Child The Search for Spark, Steven Erikson
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Willful Child: The Search for Spark

Author: Steven Erikson

Narrator: MacLeod Andrews

Unabridged: 7 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/20/2018


Synopsis

The New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Malazan Book of the Fallen series, continues his hilarious science fiction series--parodying and paying homage to exploring the final frontier--with Willful Child: The Search for Spark. These are the adventures 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.We join the not terribly bright but exceedingly cocksure 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.Steven Erikson has taken his lifelong passion for Star Trek and transformed it into a smart, inventive, and hugely entertaining spoof on the whole overblown mankind-exploring-space-for-the-good-of-all-species-but-trashing-stuff-with-a-lot-of-high-tech-gadgets-along-the-way adventure. The result is a novel that deftly parodies the genre while also paying fond homage to it.

About Steven Erikson

Steven Erikson is an archaeologist and anthropologist and a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His New York Times bestselling Malazan Book of the Fallen has met with widespread international acclaim and established him as a major voice in the world of fantasy fiction. The first book in the series, Gardens of the Moon, was shortlisted for a World Fantasy Award. The second novel, Deadhouse Gates, was voted one of the ten best fantasy novels of 2000 by SF Site. He lives in Canada.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bradley

I tore through this one and had a great deal of fun. These are the continuing adventures of... Oh My God, who put that flea collar on that cat!? This is genocide! Ahem... the continuing adventures of the sexually frustrated captain of the Starship Willful Child as he and his loyal crew of a beachball......more

Goodreads review by Jeff

I just love this series of books. I actually laugh out loud constantly while reading them. They will never win any literature awards, but that's ok. I have a blast when I read them, and I will definitely be rereading for more laughs, as I hear he's done writing Willful Child stories. Mr. Erikson sure......more

Goodreads review by Diane

If you think the show The Orville doesn’t take its homage far enough, you will enjoy Willful Child: The Search for Spark. Captain Haddrick of the starship Willful Child is a conceited and not too smart wannabe ladies’ man. His crew consists of various stereotypes. He also has an incredibly sarcastic......more

Goodreads review by Rudi

Review pending (but buy it if you have an ounce of humor)......more

Goodreads review by Patrick

Like many Erikson fans everywhere, my curiosity was piqued when it was announced that the author would be publishing a Star Trek spoof. Personally, I've never been a Star Trek fan, but I was looking forward to reading Erikson's homage/parody. Considering how fun and humorous the Bauchelain and Korba......more