{"product_id":"2940169556834","title":"Willful Child: The Search for Spark","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of the acclaimed Malazan Book of the Fallen series, continues his hilarious science fiction seriesamp;mdash;parodying and paying homage to exploring the final frontieramp;mdash;with \u003ci\u003eWillful Child: The Search for Spark\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are the adventures of the starship A.S.F. \u003ci\u003eWillful Child\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe join the not terribly bright but exceedingly cocksure Captain Hadrian Sawback and his motley crew on board the Starship \u003ci\u003eWillful Child\u003c\/i\u003e for a series of devil-may-care, near-calamitous and downright chaotic adventures through the infinite vastness of interstellar space.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSteven Erikson has taken his lifelong passion for \u003ci\u003eStar Trek\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brilliance Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104541327600,"sku":"2940169556834","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169556834_p0.jpg?v=1763686940","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169556834","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}