Mickey7

Now experience where the hit movie from Academy Award-winning director Bong Joon Ho, starring Robert Pattinson, started in Mickey7 (the inspiration for the film Mickey 17).

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. Whenever 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 six deaths, Mickey7 understands the terms of his deal…and why it was the only colonial position unfilled when he took it.

On a routine scouting mission, Mickey7 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, Mickey8, reporting for Expendable duties, and there can only be one Expendable. If Mickey7 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 poorly. The native species are growing curious about their new neighbors, and that curiosity has Commander Marshall very afraid. Ultimately, the survival of both lifeforms will come down to Mickey7.

That is, if he can just keep from dying for good.

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Published Feb 7, 2023

320 pages

Average rating: 7.16

75 RATINGS

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Community Reviews

jhwarren
Feb 24, 2026
7/10 stars
Lots of fun to read, very absurd, dark comedy. Well written, decent world building, fun though shallow characters.
READtoREEL
May 29, 2025
7/10 stars
Food and class crawler and community somewhere in another dimension and world being expendables kind of cool. Do you recommend the book to read? I think we should read part two to get the concept of the movie of Nikki 17 😉 maybe I don’t know.
Sassafras11
Jul 02, 2025
6/10 stars
Great Syfy book. I recommend the movie it takes the base of the book and really expands on it. Making characters bigger and giving them more depth.
AMJ17
May 17, 2025
8/10 stars
Hilarious and thought provoking, I love how it approaches serious philosophical topics with humor and creates a story that feels so alien yet hits close to home.
Roxanne_Debris
Mar 13, 2025
10/10 stars
Amazing. Would read again!

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