{"id":13528,"date":"2013-09-08T13:14:56","date_gmt":"2013-09-08T21:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=13528"},"modified":"2013-09-08T13:14:56","modified_gmt":"2013-09-08T21:14:56","slug":"inspired-by-scalzi-steven-erikson-reveals-his-next-novel-will-be-satirical-science-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/news\/inspired-by-scalzi-steven-erikson-reveals-his-next-novel-will-be-satirical-science-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspired by Scalzi (?), Steven Erikson reveals his next novel will be satirical Science Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bouyed by seeing the Internet’s recent enthusiasm about John Scalzi’s Redshirts<\/em> winning the Hugo Award for ‘Best Novel,’ Steven Erikson has announced that his next novel will not be a Malazan<\/em> novel (though, Adam Whitehead of The Wertzone reveals that Fall of Light<\/em>, the second novel in the Kharkanas Trilogy<\/em>, is still in the works, merely delayed), but Willfull Child<\/em>, a satirical riff on Star Trek<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Willfull Child<\/em> is described as 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.’<\/p>\n

An excerpt of Willfull Child<\/em><\/a> last year on on Tor.com.<\/p>\n

More details are available via the Amazon.co.uk<\/a> page for the novel:<\/p>\n

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…<\/p>\n

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’…\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Erikson is a delightful and sharply funny person, and I’ve always felt that this sense of humour was one of the highlights of the Malazan Book of the Fallen<\/em>, so I’m glad to see him momentarily shifting away from the dark, sprawling world of the Malazan\/Kharkanas<\/em> novels into something entirely different. Mind you, it sounds alarmingly like Scalzi’s Redshirts<\/em>, but Erikson and Scalzi are such stylistically different writers that I think the outward similarities only make me more curious to read Willfull Child<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bouyed by seeing the Internet’s recent enthusiasm about John Scalzi’s Redshirts winning the Hugo Award for ‘Best Novel,’ Steven Erikson has announced that his next novel will not be a Malazan novel (though, Adam Whitehead of The Wertzone reveals that Fall of Light, the second novel in the Kharkanas Trilogy, is still in the works,… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[59,715,126,44,331,716],"class_list":["post-13528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-science-fiction","tag-star-trek","tag-steven-erikson","tag-tor","tag-tor-com","tag-willfull-child"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n