A review by turtles1738
Mickey7 by Edward Ashton

2.0

As with everyone else recently, I read this book before going to see the movie this week. My main takeaway is I don’t understand how it got a big blockbuster movie deal. It’s not bad, per se, but in terms of sci-fi it’s a painfully average book with its only saving grace being the concept itself. Which even then is just a riff on the movie Moon from 2009. The characters themselves are all pretty one note and a majority of the book is dealing with them having the same conversations over and over again. Most of which deal with how hungry they are and how little food they have available. Which is an issue that never made sense to me, because they’re a civilization that has developed cloning and interstellar space travel. Yet they couldn’t figure out how hydroponics work or develop a greenhouse that mimics the ecosystem of the planet they just left? Seems like two major things they should have figured out before sending off ships to colonize other planets. I digress. At least the movie looks a 1000x more interesting than this book was.