Antimatter Blues
2023 • 320 pages
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The thrilling follow-up to Mickey7, soon to be a major motion picture by Academy Award-winning director Bong Joon-Ho. Surviving isn't living, even for an Expendable. Mickey7's antimatter gambit paid off. He's out of the Expendable game and doing whatever else he can to help support the threatened colony on the ice world Niflheim. But the colony now desperately needs the one thing he doesn't want to give them: the antimatter in the bomb he claimed the alien creepers have. Without it, the colony won't survive the coming years. With it, the colony leader can finally get rid of Mickey7 for good. But the planet's indigenous races have their own plans for Mickey7 and the human colony. They want the colony resources, all of them, and they won't stop until they've devoured every last scrap.
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2 primary booksMickey7 is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2022 with contributions by Edward Ashton.
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This series is one of my favorite SciFi series! I enjoy that it's set on another planet and the characters interact with aliens while also being full of humor. This book in particular felt like The Martian with less science thrown in your face. Mickey is still my favorite character from this series, even though he's a bit self-centered and rude. The first book is being made into a movie by the creator of Parasite and I am very excited to see it!
Thank you to St. Martin's Press and NetGalley for providing me an eBook copy for review.
Pros: fast paced, good world-building, romance elements
Cons:
Due to a power decrease that means the colony won’t last through the next winter, Mickey7 is tasked with retrieving the anti-matter bomb he supposedly left with the creepers two years ago. But when he goes to get it, it’s not in the rock pile where he left it.
This is a fast paced continuation of Mickey7. I loved learning more about the new world and seeing a few more alien species. Mickey has to make a lot of difficult decisions and it’s fascinating seeing what he’ll do.
I loved Mickey’s relationship with Nasha. It was nice seeing a committed couple work together to save their colony.
There’s a fair amount of action as well as some attempts at diplomacy. I thought the author did a good job of showing that different species think in different ways and that communication isn’t always straightforward.
If you like light-hearted science fiction these books are fantastic.
Originally posted at scififanletter.blogspot.com.
Really enjoyed this sequel. I have to admit, for the first 20% or so, the words “cash grab” floated across my mind, as it felt like the story was trying to bend over backwards to exist. But once the narrative actually started, and the first contact storyline that was teased in Mickey7 is fully explored, I was hooked! I loved the interactions with the colonists and the alien lifeforms. I think this storyline made me like this book even more than the first one.
Also, the audiobook was excellent! Highly recommend listening to this book if possible.
