Mickey7
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4.1 • 45 Ratings
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- £5.99
Publisher Description
Soon to be a major motion picture by Academy Award-winning director Bong Joon-Ho.
Dying isn’t any fun…but at least it’s a living.
Mickey7 is an Expendable: a disposable employee on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice world Niflheim. Whenever there’s a mission that’s too dangerous—even suicidal— the crew turns to Mickey. After one iteration dies, a new body is regenerated with most of his memories intact. Mickey signed on to escape from both bad debts and boredom on Midgard.
After six deaths, Mickey7 understands the terms of his deal…and why it was the only colonial position unfilled when he took it.
When he goes missing and is presumed dead at the hands of deadly indigenous creatures, Mickey8 reports for duty, and their troubles really begin.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Ashton (The End of Ordinary) crafts a unique hero in amateur historian Mickey Barnes, the breezy narrator of this far-flung, far-future adventure. Fleeing his gambling debts, Mickey literally signs his life away for passage on the colony ship Drakkar. As an "Expendable," he's assigned to the ship's most "dangerous-to-suicidal" jobs. Whenever one of these gigs kills him, he's regenerated as a new version of himself. When Mickey7, the seventh of these regenerations, falls into a crevasse on icy Niflheim, his aviator friend Berto leaves him to die, prompting the regeneration process to begin. But Mickey7 survives, and now he and Mickey8 coexist, breaking a societal taboo. If the hungry crew discovers there's two of them, one or both may become food, since the agricultural system is failing and can't feed extra mouths. Mickey7's present day attempts to avoid the wrath of the mission commander and defuse an alien threat on Niflheim are interspersed with his memories of previous, mostly failed attempts at colonization. These flashbacks occasionally feel like interruptions to the probing exploration of what happens when one meets oneself, but they successfully broaden Ashton's imaginative perspective with multiple worlds. Sci-fi readers will be drawn in by the inventive premise and stick around for the plucky narrator.
Customer Reviews
Mickey 7
This is up there with Andy Weirs best well worth a read.
Fun and thoughtful
I quite liked the book. It was fun, suspenseful and full of humour. It did drag a bit in the middle, but wraps it up with a satisfying, humane, ending.
Mediocre book
Average at best .