Antimatter Blues
A Mickey7 Novel
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
The thrilling follow-up to Mickey7, soon to be a major motion picture by Academy Award-winning director Bong Joon-Ho.
Surviving isn't living, even for an Expendable.
Mickey7's antimatter gambit paid off. He's out of the Expendable game and doing whatever else he can to help support the threatened colony on the ice world Niflheim. But the colony now desperately needs the one thing he doesn't want to give them: the antimatter in the bomb he claimed the alien creepers have.
Without it, the colony won't survive the coming years. With it, the colony leader can finally get rid of Mickey7 for good.
But the planet's indigenous races have their own plans for Mickey7 and the human colony. They want the colony resources, all of them, and they won't stop until they've devoured every last scrap.
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In the 1,000 years since humanity dispersed into Ashton's vibrant vision of far-future space, none of the limited contact between humans and aliens has ended well, but now retired expendable Mickey must cozy up to the Nifleim colony's native "creepers" to retrieve an antimatter bomb that was lost in the previous novel, Mickey7. As an Expendable, Mickey's died and come back six times already, but now he feels his life is precious. He's got Nasha, a feisty recon pilot, to snuggle with; a job cleaning the hungry colony's rabbit hutches; and a daredevil friend, Berto, he doesn't want to lose. Still, when duty calls via vengeful colony commander Marshall, he's off on a series of free-wheeling adventures among two sets of warring creepers to get that bomb back. If he fails, there'll be no coming back this time. Ashton's breezy characters, especially a few alien creepers able to communicate with the humans, delight, and the grungy details of colony life are rendered as realistically as Mickey's hunger pangs. It's good fun with a surprisingly effective closing twist that sci-fi fans will savor.
