Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

It was easier to read once I had the mental image of Robert Pattinson as Mickey in my head

Mickey7 by Edward Ashton

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3.5 stars Nowhere Books Bingo 25: Book adapted into a movie or TV show CBR17 Bingo: Diaspora (Mickey7 and the others on his crew are colonists on a hostile planet far from their original home) Mickey Barnes has, through some truly idiotic decisions, ended up acquiring so much gambling debt that he now has to leave the planet. Literally the only way he can do that is to go with the space expedition, which is setting off to colonise the far-off planet of Niflheim. Unfortunately, […]

“If I die, you can always make another me.”

Mickey7 (Mickey7, #1) by Edward Ashton

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What a way to start the year—existential crises and smart-assery. Mickey7, aka Mickey Barnes, is our guy. He’s an Expendable on a mission to establish a beachhead colony on a far-flung world. Expendables are just that—they are the people sent on suicide missions, given dangerous tasks, experimented upon medically to develop vaccines and treatments for whatever exciting new ailments await colonists on their new planet. He’s the guy who will die for you, only to have a new copy of himself ready to go 24-hours […]

Let’s talk about the Ship of Theseus

Mickey7 by Edward Ashton

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Well, this was a delightful little SciFi romp, and a super quick read. Imagine, if you will, one of the infamous Red Shirts from your favorite SciFi show. Poor guys – they just have to keep recruiting more and more of them as they get killed on away missions. Well, in Mickey’s world, they’ve solved that problem with Expendables. Mickey’s job title with his colony ship is Expendable: he gets the worst, most dangerous jobs. And when he dies (he’s on his seventh iteration as […]



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