Book: Mickey 7

 Book: Mickey 7

Author: Edward Ashton

Pages: 320

This is my 139th read for the year

What Amazon says:

Dying isn't any fun - but at least it's a living.  Mickey Barnes is an Expendable: a disposable employee on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice world Niflheim.  Whever 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 sex deaths, Mickey 7 understands the terms of his deal - and why it was the only colonial position unfilled when he took it.  On a routine scouting mission, Mickey 7 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.  There's a new clone, Mickey 9, reporting for expendable duties, and there can only be one Expendable.  If Mickey 7 reports his survival to Command, one of them is going into the recycler.  If he doesn't and they're 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 pooly.  The native species are growing curious about their new neighbors, and that curisoty has Commander Marshall very afraid.  Ultimately, the survival of both lifeforms will come down to Mickey 7.

This was a pretty good book.  I had actually seen the movie first, and this follows it loosely.  It is a pretty good story, and it moves along at a good pace.  Good character development.  In some ways I liked the book a bit better than the movie, but the movie had a lot more action/side character involvement than the book did.  Ends well.

Stars: 4