Mickey7: A Novel [Hardcover]

Now experience where the hit movie from Academy Award-winning director Bong Joon Ho, starring Robert Pattinson, started inMickey7(the inspiration for the filmMickey 17).

Dying isnt any fun&but at least its a living.

Mickey Barnes is an Expendable: a disposable employee on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice world Niflheim. Whenever theres a mission thats too dangerouseven suicidalthe 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 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, his fate has been sealed. Theres a new clone, Mickey8, reporting for Expendable duties, and there can only be one Expendable. If Mickey7 reports his survival to Command, one of them is going into the recycler. If he doesnt and theyre caught, they both are.

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.

Edward Ashton is the author of the novelsThree Days in AprilandThe End of Ordinary,as well as of short stories which have appeared in venues ranging from the newsletter of an Italian sausage company toEscape Pod, Analog,andFireside Fiction.He lives in upstate New York in a cabin in the woods (notthatcabin 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 quló1