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Mickey7 is a 2022 science fiction novel by Edward Ashton. Its sequel, Antimatter Blues, was released in March 2023.
Mickey 17, a film adaptation directed by Bong Joon-ho, was released in 2025.
Space colonist Mickey Barnes, a.k.a. Mickey7, tries to survive in a beachhead colony on an alien world. The job he reluctantly signed up for is to be "expendable", undertaking all of the most dangerous tasks necessary for a mission to colonize the ice world Niflheim. When one Mickey dies, another is cloned in his place with most of his memories intact, but at a significant cost to the colony. Mickey's survival difficulties mount as the colony struggles for resources, native life forms become increasingly threatening, and circumstances result in the accidental creation of two Mickeys.
Ashton started writing the book in 2015. Ashton wanted to explore the teletransportation paradox in a shorter novella but was urged to write more by Navah Wolfe.
Discussing the background of the novel, Ashton said: "I wrote a short story a number of years ago that explored...a sort of crappy immortality.... I liked the idea and wanted to see how that could be expanded if you coupled it with an exploitative social structure."
In addition, George R. R. Martin's "Thousand Worlds" universe (setting for Martin's debut novel, Dying of the Light, Sandkings, Nightflyers, A Song for Lya, "The Way of Cross and Dragon", and the stories collected in Tuf Voyaging, among others) was also a major influence.
NPR included it among its list of the Best Sci-Fi Books of 2022.
Writing for Locus, Gabino Iglesias called the book a "multilayered, wildly entertaining story" and wrote, "Mickey7 has something for everyone while also putting a fresh spin on the idea of clones."
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Mickey7
Mickey7 is a 2022 science fiction novel by Edward Ashton. Its sequel, Antimatter Blues, was released in March 2023.
Mickey 17, a film adaptation directed by Bong Joon-ho, was released in 2025.
Space colonist Mickey Barnes, a.k.a. Mickey7, tries to survive in a beachhead colony on an alien world. The job he reluctantly signed up for is to be "expendable", undertaking all of the most dangerous tasks necessary for a mission to colonize the ice world Niflheim. When one Mickey dies, another is cloned in his place with most of his memories intact, but at a significant cost to the colony. Mickey's survival difficulties mount as the colony struggles for resources, native life forms become increasingly threatening, and circumstances result in the accidental creation of two Mickeys.
Ashton started writing the book in 2015. Ashton wanted to explore the teletransportation paradox in a shorter novella but was urged to write more by Navah Wolfe.
Discussing the background of the novel, Ashton said: "I wrote a short story a number of years ago that explored...a sort of crappy immortality.... I liked the idea and wanted to see how that could be expanded if you coupled it with an exploitative social structure."
In addition, George R. R. Martin's "Thousand Worlds" universe (setting for Martin's debut novel, Dying of the Light, Sandkings, Nightflyers, A Song for Lya, "The Way of Cross and Dragon", and the stories collected in Tuf Voyaging, among others) was also a major influence.
NPR included it among its list of the Best Sci-Fi Books of 2022.
Writing for Locus, Gabino Iglesias called the book a "multilayered, wildly entertaining story" and wrote, "Mickey7 has something for everyone while also putting a fresh spin on the idea of clones."