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 life-forms, to boldly blow the... And so we join the not-terribly-bright but exceedingly cock-sure captain hadrian sawback - a kind of james t kirk crossed with "american dad" - 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 bestselling author of the acclaimed malazan book of the fallen sequence has taken his life-long 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-hi-tech-kit-along-the-way type over-blown adventure. The result is this smart. Inventive, occasionally wildly ott and often very funny novel that deftly parodies the genre while also paying fond homage to it.