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    Mickey7: A Novel
    Mickey7: A Novel
    Mickey7: A Novel
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    Mickey7: A Novel

    By Edward Ashton

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    *Soon to be the major motion picture Mickey17*

    The Martian     meets Multiplicity in Edward Ashton's high concept science fiction thriller, in which Mickey7, an "expendable," refuses to let his replacement clone Mickey8 take his place.

    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. After six deaths, Mickey7 understands the terms of his deal…and why it was the only colonial position unfilled when he took it.

    On a fairly routine scouting mission, Mickey7 goes missing and is presumed dead. By the time he returns to the colony base, surprisingly helped back by native life, Mickey7’s fate has been sealed. There’s a new clone, Mickey8, reporting for Expendable duties. The idea of duplicate Expendables is universally loathed, and if caught, they will likely be thrown into the recycler for protein.

    Mickey7 must keep his double a secret from the rest of the colony. Meanwhile, life on Niflheim is getting worse. The atmosphere is unsuitable for humans, food is in short supply, and terraforming is going poorly. The native species are growing curious about their new neighbors, and that curiosity has Commander Marshall very afraid. Ultimately, the survival of both lifeforms will come down to Mickey7.

    That is, if he can just keep from dying for good.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateFeb 15, 2022
    ISBN9781250275042
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    Edward Ashton

    Edward Ashton (he/him) is the author of the novels Three Days in April, The End of Ordinary, and Mickey7, as well as of short stories which have appeared in venues ranging from the newsletter of an Italian sausage company to Escape Pod, Analog, and Fireside Fiction. He lives in upstate New York in a cabin in the woods (not that cabin in the woods) with his wife, a variable number of daughters, and an adorably mopey dog named Max. In his free time, he enjoys cancer research, teaching quantum physics to sullen graduate students, and whittling.

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    • 5/5
      Mickey7 (Mickey7, #1)by Edward AshtonI can't tell you how much I loved this book! Many of the books on the Goodreads Science Fiction Nominated Books I have read, and are on my favorite list, and it was such a hard choice! Oh, man, very hard! But this was the one that had humor, great science fiction, action, so much wit, twists, touching moments, and so much more! This is a book that people that don't normally like sci-fi would like! That's why I voted for this book! This deserves a movie!I can't wait for book 2 to come out!It's about a guy desperate to get off world so he takes a job no one wants, an Expendable. That means that the ship keeps clone cells ready to pop out the next Mickey, that's the guy's name, when he dies. Which he dies often. Any potentially dangerous thing happening? Mickey to the rescue! Mickey dies? No problem, next Mickey ready!Something happens that makes everyone think Mikey 7 died so when he is able to get back to the ship, Mikey 8 is there! Now they will both be eliminated if found!Terrific and fun story! Read now!! Do yourself a favor!
    • 2/5
      I detest cliffhangers.
    • 3/5
      2023 book #29: 2022. Micky is an Expendable, the guy on a newly colonized planet who gets all the deadly jobs because they can build him a new body if he's killed. When the 7th Micky is presumed dead and they build Micky8, complications ensue. Pretty good in a wise cracking way.
    • 2/5
      Many thanks to NetGalley, Edward Ashton and St. Martin’s Press for an ARC in exchange for an honest review. My thoughts and opinions are 100% my own and independent of receiving an advance copy.Poor Mickey! Although he can technically never die, the only way he gets to live forever is by going through a gruesome death and be replicated back to life. Each colony has one multiple. There are so many dangerous jobs to be done, experiments to be made, why risk the lives of the colonists when they have someone to do the job for them. I mean, he volunteered for the job. Mickey did volunteer but it was out of desperation. Most times they will conscript someone from prison for this lovely job, but no, Mickey actually signed up for this gig. I don’t think he realized that people would either hate him or be so weirded out by him that they don’t want anything to do with him. It doesn’t help that the commander in charge is a Naturalist and fundamentally opposed to multiples. Luckily he has his best friend Berto and his girlfriend Nasha. But is Berto his best friend really? I mean the guy left him to die. That leads to Mickey’s current predicament. He didn’t die, but Berto, who left him for dead, has reported it and when Mickey 7 returns to his room, Mickey 8 is sleeping in his bed. He can’t report Mickey 8 or they will both end up in the dumpster. The biggest rule is that there should never be 2 multiples walking around at the same time. He knows he should jump into the hopper himself, but he can’t seem to do it. Now he has to split, not only rations with his other self, but his girlfriend. This is really not what he signed up for. How did he survive anyway. He fell down a big hole and instead of the creepers, these ugly animal like creatures that inhabit the planet, tearing him apart, they simply picked him up and deposited him outside. Like you would a spider you found in your house. Does this mean that they are sentient beings? This could be a bigger problem than Mickey having two of him running around.I was hyped for this one. I thought the idea was great and I was excited for the possibilities. But it just fell flat for me. I kept waiting for it to take off, but it never did. It is readable but it never really got sophisticated either in the character development or world building. I thought there was so much more that could have been done. There was too much middle and the end felt rushed.
    • 1/5
      This novel has more holes than my kid’s sockets…The explanation of why there cannot be more copies of the same person at the same time is not very convincing, as logic would determine that this is the best way and there is not even an explanation for the fact that the other members of a mission of only a handful of people responsible for thousands of frozen human embryos are not able to regenerate even in the event of accidental death. In terms of the action itself, there's not much to say, as the tension is located much more internally in the base set up on the planet, with the Mickeys' decoy being the key, than in the clash between humans and insects, something that is resolved in a very simplistic way. Mickey7 is the same from beginning to end, without any greater evolution arc than the actual realization that people are selfish (ROTFL). Mickey8 is also a non-character. And the same goes for Mickey7's girlfriend and best friend, as well as the base boss, Marshall, as they are nothing more than character archetypes that exist with the exact same function as buttons on a remote control: fulfilling specific and invariable tasks and boring as hell.The entire philosophy of this novel revolves around the now well-known – thanks to WandaVision – Paradox of the Ship of Theseus, which asks if the ship in question, which, throughout its voyage of years, undergoes successive repairs that, in the end, replace all its wooden planks, remain the same ship that started the journey. Or, transferring the paradox to the case of the novel, are Mickey's later iterations of the original, each one of them, the same initial Mickey? The point is that this discussion exists only as a literary device known (at least by me) as “oooohhhh, wow, how cool! Look at me being smart as fuck!”, i.e., that device inserted into the narrative as its background is only to make it seem that the story is smarter and more challenging than it actually is. But this novel is not alone in this. It’s a common recurrence in contemporary SF. The writers just start with something apparently meticulously worked on to “justify” the reading of the work beyond a shallow SF adventure like the proverbial saucer.Another contemporary SF stinker.
    • 4/5
      I RECEIVED A DRC FROM THE PUBLISHER VIA NETGALLEY. THANK YOU.My Review: Well, what can I say. I liked THE END OF ORDINARY well enough...inventive use of science, interesting personal stakes, but curiously flat. I wanted to read this book because I loved the science premise (remember Doctor Who's Gangers? My favorite slave race, narrowly displacing the Ood). Also because, well, look at the title of this blog and tell me why I might be interested in the story.I was particularly taken by Mickey7's job on Niflheim, the planet where he...um...where the action takes place. Oh dear...the Spoiler Stasi will be after me...look, I'm kind of hamstrung here by the endless whinging of the spoilerphobes. So, let's just say, if the possibility of knowing something about a read will utterly devastate your pleasure in it, go somewhere else.Mickey Barnes chose life as an expendable because, frankly, it was the best way to get on a colony ship away from Earth. This particular colony ship has religious nuts on it, however, and as is always the way with those sort of people, they've decided their imaginary friend doesn't like...really, hates, though for poorly explored reasons...expendables. They're abominations. After all, I thought to myself, once you're dead, their big bully in the...wait, they're on a a spaceship, where the hell is their gawd in such immense skies? how's she keeping tabs on 'em, some sort of spiritual Ring or Alexa?...anyway, your eternal torments are supposed to begin with death (unless, that is, you're one of Them, and even then it's not 100% guaranteed you'll get the post-mortem goodies). Mickey7, whose previous six deaths were pretty horrific, is still up for doing his job now they're on the ice planet Niflheim. Problem is he's gone and fallen into a crevasse. No one's going to bother rescuing an expendable. That's sort of the point of them...he'll be reconstituted into Mickey8, the cycle will continue.Mickey7's luck is that he survives and makes his way back to the colony, somehow thinking they won't have reconstituted Mickey8. He's handed the religious nut in charge the lever he needs to bludgeon the colony into following his hate-filled plan for the colony to be expendable free. After all, their resources are strained to the limit and, even though expendables get less to eat and fewer material benefits than the religious nuts, they really can't afford another mouth to feed.But someone please explain to me again how religion is a force for good and compassion in the world.What results from this unprecedented situation is a kind of slamming-doors farce, with 7 and 8 agreeing to take on the task of splitting their Mickey-duties to both stay alive; needless to say, that fails. What made it fun to read, and the source of my four-star rating, is the sheer propulsive power of Author Ashton's use of Mickey7 as the first-person narrator. It was immediately clear to me that I was going to be investing in this character. His matter-of-factness was endearing to me, where a more emotionally fraught close third-person narration wouldn't have given me the impetus to keep reading.The filmed version we can expect in, permaybehaps, 2024 is set to star Robert Pattinson and Steven Yeun. Brad Pitt's company is set to produce, and Bong Joon-ho is set to direct. IF, that is, David Zaslav's flensing knife spares the project now that Plan B Entertainment's new home Warner Brothers is owned by his philistine self. Star power isn't much to Discovery, they like cheap and flashy.We'll always have the fun, funny, and very provocative-idea-laden book.
    • 3/5
      Interesting plot and setting, and starting off nicely. After half of the book it seemed to 'flatten out' and I had to convince myself to finish. It's hard to put the finger on what's missing. Its an ok story, with ok characters, little depth, with ok tension, with ok surprise, with predictable next steps. Meh.
    • 5/5
      Mickey's job is to die. As an expendable, he is sent on dangerous missions by the colonist, where his chance of survival is nil. Once he dies, his body is reprinted and his memories uploaded to the new iteration. When sent on a routine mission, he falls into an underground tunnel system and is presumed dead. Before he can rejoin the colony, a new Mikey is printed. Duplicates are both feared and loathed, causing Mickey7 and Mickey8 to hide for fear of being recycled. Terraforming is going poorly, calories are limited, and the local life forms seem to be attacking the colony. Just when things can't get worse....they do.This was an extremely dynamic story. The world was well formed and developed and both the society and technology seemed believable. I would love to read more from this author. 5 out of 5 stars.
    • 4/5
      This book was so much fun! Mickey Barnes is an "expendable" - someone sent on space expeditions to be the one used in dangerous, usually life threatening situations - radiation exposure, vicious space creatures, hostile environments, dangerous ship repairs. After one version of Mickey dies, another clone is regenerated on the ship complete with the latest downloaded memories. However, when Mickey survives unexpectedly he must contend with the fact that a clone has already been regenerated to take his place. What transpires is reminiscent of a comedy of errors as both Mickeys try to navigate thru the space colony without giving away their secret. This is a quick and easy enjoyable read!
    • 4/5
      You know, I really enjoyed this and I feel like Ashton can definitely make a sequel as there are a few big questions that haven't been answered.

      Very creative and unique. I really enjoyed the journey and adore Mickey7.
    • 4/5
      Mickey needed to get out of town asap so he signed on as the Expendable for the voyage to the stars. Anything to get away. And really, how bad can it be? Yes, Expendables get dead sometimes, but they wake up again right? Once, twice, thrice, … 4, 5, 6, 7.It's all going as well as multiple horrible deaths can go until there is a glitch and Mickey7 walks in on Mickey8 – Mickey8 who should not exist and who eats too much.The publisher might call Mickey7 a high concept book, but it's not, really, but it sure is fun. There are a few holes – mostly about Berto – but otherwise, the story hangs pretty together well and I enjoyed it. I received a review copy of "Mickey7" by Edward Ashton from St. Martin's Press through NetGalley.com.
    • 5/5
      Pros: great premise, interesting charactersCons:Mickey Barnes is the expendable for the Niflheim beachhead colony, which means if there’s a dangerous job, he’s the one doing it. So it’s not surprising that when his seventh iteration falls into a deep hole he’s left for dead. Unfortunately when he makes it back to base a new copy of himself is sleeping in his bed. Multiples are the biggest taboo, so the Mickeys must hide what they are even as trouble is brewing with the planet’s indigenous lifeforms.This book was a lot of fun to read. It’s quick paced and engaging, with Mickey7 including important incidents from his past while narrating the events of the present.I went from thinking of Mickey7 as a decent guy, then kind of a jerk, then back to being a decent guy. Some of his history paints him in a bad light though it seems dying multiple times has improved his character somewhat. I really liked Nasha and thought their relationship was great.The book poses some interesting ethical questions without delving too deeply into them or dwelling on them for long. It’s mostly a lighthearted read.The world-building was great. There was a lot more explanation about the larger universe than I expected, with Mickey explaining things about life on his homeworld, Midgard, and some of the other colonies (successful & failed).The ending ties together all the various narratives Mickey throws at you. I especially loved how his study of history gave him insight into how to think of the native species.If you like easygoing, sometimes humorous, sometimes serious SF, give this a go.(review copy received from NetGalley)
    • 4/5
      As can be inferred from Edward Ashton's title, this novel centers on a person who has been cloned -- several times. A volunteer on a colonizing spaceship headed to an ice planet called Niflheim, Mickey7 is an Expendable. His role is to take the most highly dangerous tasks needed in the new colony, and if he dies, be regenerated with his memories more or less in tact. A recruiter sold him on this job as a means to be immortal --- but experiencing death, in several extremely painful forms, makes Mickey7 a bit jaded about the whole thing.Mickey7 narrates the story; through his flippant, sarcastic voice we learn of the demise of not only Earth, but also many other colony start-ups in which the entire crew died. So the theme of death and life is omnipresent in the narrative, though the tone is light and somewhat comic. A familiar clone story trope, the simultaneous existence of two versions of an individual, appears early in the novel as Mickey7 and Mickey8 first try to hide their "double" status and later become enmeshed in the existential danger facing their colony. Given the discovery of apparently menacing, sentient life-forms on Niflheim, should the human response be to kill them all since communication seems impossible, thereby committing genocide? What other choices are possible?The exploration of this crisis is light-hearted, yet the resolution is nevertheless too easy, with closure on the perplexing "duplicate" existence and a rocky love relationship crafted in a rather perplexing manner.This novel will be enjoyed by readers who relish characters with breezy/saucy attitudes, occasional forays into ethical questions, and who tolerate storylines that don't stick the landing.I received this book from St. Martin's Press via NetGalley. This is an honest review.
    • 4/5
      In a far-flung future, space missions like to include one person whose job is to be the expendable, assigned the most dangerous jobs and then re-created if they die. In this adventure, Mickey desperately takes on the job of expendable in order to escape his life threatening debts at home, and as the story opens he is on his 7th incarnation, memories mostly intact. As the narrator of the events, Mickey's attitude is both entertaining and engaging, and his descriptions of his fellow shipmates razor sharp. Unfortunately there can be only one incarnation of him at a time, but his best friend's mistake causes another Mickey (#8) to be made, and so the subterfuge begins. Meanwhile, the inhabitants of the planet the crew is researching seem very dangerous, but Mickey& has a different opinion and must risk his #7 life again. The action is compelling and the characterization and future vision are thought-provoking.
    • 4/5
      Review of Uncorrected Digital GalleyIn a future time, mankind has developed the technology to travel to far-flung planets to establish colonies and has moved out into the universe. Once long-range reconnaissance determines the habitability of a planet, a single ship . . . a beachhead colony mission . . . departs on its mission.On this mission, colonists will travel aboard the “Drakkar” from Midgard to the planet where they will establish the colony of Niflheim. But when they reach the planet, instead of a habitable world, they discover an ice planet with an atmosphere unsuitable for humans. Their food supply is steadily shrinking, terraforming isn’t too successful, and the planet’s native species, creepers, are a fearsome lot.Mickey is the member of the crew who’s assigned all the difficult, deadly dangerous tasks. He’s the disposable crew member, an Expendable who has died and been regenerated six times. Currently, he is Mickey7.On a routine planetary scouting mission outside the colonists’ habitable dome, Mickey tumbles down a deep hole; stranded and unable to climb out, he finds himself some three meters below the surface . . . too deep for his companions to safely mount a rescue mission.When Mickey comes across a creeper-like creature in one of the tunnels, he expects to die; instead, he finds himself transported through a series of tunnels and returned to the surface of the planet. Mickey returns to the dome to discover that he’s been presumed to have been killed and a new iteration . . . Mickey8 . . . has been created.Two duplicates cannot be allowed to exist simultaneously, food is strictly rationed, and neither Mickey wants to die. How long will they be able to keep the existence of two Mickeys a secret? And how long can the colony exist on a hostile world?=========Strong worldbuilding highlights this intriguing tale that asks what it means to be human. Imaginative and compelling, the unfolding narrative pulls the reader into the story and keeps the pages turning.Well-drawn characters, a strong plot, and a fast-moving plot combine to make this narrative eminently readable. Flashbacks provide the necessary backstory to explain the how and why of the off-world colonization efforts and give the story depth as do the aspects of dealing with ethical quandaries.Told from Mickey’s point of view, his somewhat snarky nature is an asset to the telling of the tale and, although the story reaches a satisfactory denouement, readers are likely to want to know more about what happens to Mickey and the Niflheim colony.The only downside here is the annoying, unnecessary use of an offensive expletive that many readers will find off-putting.Recommended.I received a free copy of this eBook from St. Martin’s Press and NetGalley#Mickey7 #NetGalley

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    Mickey7 - Edward Ashton

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