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Publicado el 2023 por Phantasia Press.
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 …
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.
3.5 stars. I liked it quite well, but it's a little simplistic in some ways? At least it made a hell of a lot more sense than the movie though! (Which makes sense since I believe the director of the movie is the same guy who did Snowpiercer and just wanted to ram the message home even more in this movie than his previous one.
This was a very engaging read that didn't break a lot of new ground, but did well with established sci-fi tropes. The protagonist was interesting, and there was a good, tight story.
I would say this was about 80% Murderbot and 20% Andy Weir. The core of the book was ideas I've seen used fairly frequently in sci-fi. There were some new ideas and world-building, but they weren't super well integrated in the story. Sometimes the narrator would just take a break from the action to spend a chapter talking about worldbuilding.
I didn't love the way the author wrote women. They were fickle and turned on people too easily. A lot of the book was about Mickey learning self-respect, but he never addressed how Nasha's teasing could read as cruelty. It also doesn't really reveal what Mickey 8's deal is. He seems different from Mickey 7 in ways that …
This was a very engaging read that didn't break a lot of new ground, but did well with established sci-fi tropes. The protagonist was interesting, and there was a good, tight story.
I would say this was about 80% Murderbot and 20% Andy Weir. The core of the book was ideas I've seen used fairly frequently in sci-fi. There were some new ideas and world-building, but they weren't super well integrated in the story. Sometimes the narrator would just take a break from the action to spend a chapter talking about worldbuilding.
I didn't love the way the author wrote women. They were fickle and turned on people too easily. A lot of the book was about Mickey learning self-respect, but he never addressed how Nasha's teasing could read as cruelty. It also doesn't really reveal what Mickey 8's deal is. He seems different from Mickey 7 in ways that are never explained, although maybe that's just a way of saying the narrator is different when seen from the outside.
I'll read the sequel soon and am looking forward to the movie.
Interessante Story die amüsant rübergebracht wird. Trotzdem macht man sich manchmal ernsthaftere Gedanken...wie wäre es wohl, wenn man an der Stelle des Protagonisten wäre?
Ich werde mich jetzt den zweiten Teil der Buchserie wagen und bin auf die Verfilmung mit dem Namen "Mickey 17" gespannt.
I figured going in I'd either love or hate this. The notion of being a disposable person with cloned versions of yourself waiting in tanks is familiar enough to me (such as the "troubleshooters", the player characters in the RPG Paranoia) that I've seen the possibilities for how surprisingly dull it can get.
Mickey7 did not fall into those traps. Through cleverly timed breaks for exposition and world building, mixed with just the right amount of gallows humor, I was never caught wishing the story would just move on already or felt the need to take breaks to escape the darkness.
In an interesting science fiction setting of humans trying to establish a beachhead colony on an inhospitable world, Mickey7 shows us how we can process trauma, how our past selves shape but do not define who we presently are. I see a movie is being made from it, and …
I figured going in I'd either love or hate this. The notion of being a disposable person with cloned versions of yourself waiting in tanks is familiar enough to me (such as the "troubleshooters", the player characters in the RPG Paranoia) that I've seen the possibilities for how surprisingly dull it can get.
Mickey7 did not fall into those traps. Through cleverly timed breaks for exposition and world building, mixed with just the right amount of gallows humor, I was never caught wishing the story would just move on already or felt the need to take breaks to escape the darkness.
In an interesting science fiction setting of humans trying to establish a beachhead colony on an inhospitable world, Mickey7 shows us how we can process trauma, how our past selves shape but do not define who we presently are. I see a movie is being made from it, and I fear it will lose a lot of what I love in the translation. I did pre-order the sequel book, though, and am looking forward to more of Mickey.
