<DIV><DIV><P>From the <I>New York Times<B> </B></I>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.<BR><BR>These are the voyages of the starship A.S.F. <I>Willful Child</I>. 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...<BR><BR>And so we join the not-terribly-bright but exceedingly cock-sure Captain Hadrian Sawback and his motley crew on board the Starship <I>Willful Child</I> for a series of devil-may-care, near-calamitous and downright chaotic adventures through ‘the infinite vastness of interstellar space.’<BR><BR>The <I>New York Times </I>bestselling author of the acclaimed Malazan Book of the Fallen sequence has taken his lifelong passion for <I>Star Trek</I> 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.</DIV></DIV>