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ERIKSON, STEVEN: : WILLFULL CHILD

LONDON.BANTAM PRESS.an imprint of TRANSWORLD PUBLISHER'S,2014.

ISBN 9780593073070.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,wrap-around colour pictorial artwork by Steve Stone,illustrated dw/dj,with capitalised,embossed gilt-lettered author name; capitalised,embossed white-lettered title and other flat printed,capitalised white lettering credit for his previous series 'The Malazan Book of the Fallen',and yellow-lettered strap line to front panel; spine/backstrip with similarly coloured +lettered title+author name as front, but flat printed,and publisher's capitalised white lettered+illustrated colophon to foot of same,rear panel with critic's white-lettered review.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright, crisp,unblemished,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettering,a pale orange+white striped headband and immaculate plain black endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,12-348pp [paginated] includes a Prelude,27 chapters and an Epilogue [unpaginated]; plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,a dedication (to Robert Sawyer - same critic's review to rear panel), Acknowledgements,title separator page - the latter three,each with a blank reverse,and to the rear,as last page,a potted biog+website info on the author. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It really is an exceptional, exemplary example for its cleanliness,brightness and lack of detracting faults.                                          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, and to boldly go. . . Well,you get the idea. And so we join the not-terribly-bright but exceedingly cock-sure Captain Hadrian Sawback - think 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'. Assigned to a routine shakedown cruise in search of smugglers,he instead embarks on a chaotic,calamitous and frequently inappropriate journey into Unknown Space, where he and his occasionally mutinous crew encounter everything from a selfaggrandizing time machine to a rougue Artificial Intelligence with gender issues.Along the way,Captain Sawback may even save the Affiliation of Civilized Planets from an all-out alien invasion - as long as he doesn't get court-matialled first!                            The bestselling author of the acclaimed Malazan Book of the Fallen sequence has taken a life-long passion for 'Star Trek' and transformed it into a 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 science fiction adventure. The result is smart,inventive,occasionally OTT and often very funny - a novel that both deftly parodies the genre and pays fond homage to it and is a rollicking and wild trek into the outer limits of absurdity and shameless,and over-the-top heroism.                                      Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,that stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of any inexpensive book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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