{"product_id":"willful-child","title":"Willful Child","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom 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 cock-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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44948537868341,"sku":"ByrdShop_0765374900","price":60.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780765374905.jpg?v=1770050589","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/willful-child","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}