Willful Child · Book 2
Willful Child: Wrath of Betty
- Published
- 30 August 2016
- Pages
- 336
- ISBN-13
- 9780765383907
- Type
- novel
About this book
Willful Child: Wrath of Betty followed in August 2016, four pages shorter at 336 pages, continuing Steven Erikson's episodic missions-gone-wrong format with Captain Hadrian Sawback's ego still the biggest threat in the room.
Its place in Willful Child
Willful Child: Wrath of Betty is book 2 in the Willful Child series. It follows Willful Child. It is followed by Willful Child: The Search for Spark. 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 9780765383907