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IT WASN’T that long ago that sci-fi creators were more starry-eyed and optimistic about the prospects of tech companies keeping our best interests at heart. Officially I am an executive producer, but my belief is that probably that's entirely a symbolic title. But whether a life in the digitised beyond feels like heaven for the minds that inhabit it or like a corporate-branded version of hell, Mickey7 makes a good case that any human who decides to upload themselves will be just as dead as anyone else who has ever lived and died. That question led me to the idea of the Diaspora, which then led me to wonder what circumstances back on Earth would have given rise to something like that. Humor has always been an important tool in my bag, but I’m very conscious of the fact that it’s a dangerous one to deploy.
In an interview with SciFiNow, Ashton has described an intellectual fascination with the transportation paradox, the foundation for his novel Mickey7, which delineates the problematic essence of "beam me up, Scotty. When he goes missing and is presumed dead at the hands of deadly indigenous creatures, Mickey8 reports for duty, and their troubles really begin.Martin Press describes the novel as a high-concept cerebral thriller in the vein of The Martian and Dark Matter. Now Mickey7 and Mickey8 must hide their dual existences from a corporation that frowns on repetition as the bug-like native creatures grow restless in the frigid, hostile environment and a cross-species conflict brews that threatens both sides.
Mickey Barnes is expendable; he has signed up to be the cannon fodder in scientific planetary explorations where the human touch is needed. Plus, we have Toni Collette, and given how much she excels in genre movies (see: Knives Out , Hereditary, Nightmare Alley) we cannot wait to see what Bong will get from her. The novel deals directly with clones, their legitimacy, and their acceptance and utility in society.Feature adaptation of the science fiction novel by Edward Ashton follows the story of Mickey 17, an "expendable," who is a disposable employee on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice world Niflheim. In the movie world, the synopsis sounds similar to the Sam Rockwell-starring 2009 film Moon, which also explores the morality and legitimacy of cloning and clones. Essentially, Mickey7 is the seventh iteration of an expendable who is undergoing an existential identity crisis while trying to keep his successor's regeneration a secret and negotiating with the planet's native species on a dangerous trip to colonize a new ice world.
It’s a quiet, beautiful book with a lot to say about the right way to live in a world where everything is temporary, whether we’re willing to admit it or not. Existential themes of identity and immortality are carefully explored in Edward Ashton’s engaging new sci-fi novel "Mickey7" (St. I wrote a short story a number of years ago that explored the idea of saving your consciousness and after you're killed, be regenerated, and in that way have a sort of crappy immortality as I describe it in "Mickey7. There also seems to be some drama with the natives on the planet the humans are colonizing, and in best novel fashion, it all comes down to Mickey7 to save the day.
When Mickey’s eighth instance is mistakenly decanted while Mickey7 is still alive, he wakes up to the fact that he has had the wool pulled over his eyes.
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