Willful Child · Book 3
Willful Child: The Search for Spark
- Published
- 1 November 2018
- Pages
- 336
- ISBN-13
- 9780765383969
- Type
- novel
About this book
Willful Child: The Search for Spark closed the trilogy in November 2018, matching Wrath of Betty's 336 pages as the parody's final entry -- written, Erikson has said, purely for fun between Malazan volumes.
Its place in Willful Child
Willful Child: The Search for Spark is book 3 in the Willful Child series. It follows Willful Child: Wrath of Betty. See the full Willful Child reading order.
Willful Child is Steven Erikson's broad, gleefully juvenile spoof of Star Trek and space-opera tropes generally, following Captain Hadrian Sawback -- a preening, rule-breaking, catastrophically overconfident starship commander -- and the long-suffering crew of the AFS Willful Child as they blunder from one galaxy-endangering incident to the next. It's a hard tonal left turn from Erikson's epic fantasy work: crude, fast-paced, and openly parodic, aimed squarely at fans of the original Star Trek series and its many…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780765383969