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Antimatter Blues

A Mickey7 Novel, Book 2

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Antimatter Blues

By: Edward Ashton
Narrated by: John Pirhalla, Katharine Chin
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Edward Ashton's Antimatter Blues is the thrilling follow up to Mickey7, in which an expendable heads out to explore new terrain for human habitation.

Summer has come to Niflheim. The lichens are growing, the six-winged bat-things are chirping, and much to his own surprise, Mickey Barnes is still alive—that last part thanks almost entirely to the fact that Commander Marshall believes that the colony’s creeper neighbors are holding an antimatter bomb, and that Mickey is the only one who’s keeping them from using it. Mickey’s just another colonist now. Instead of cleaning out the reactor core, he spends his time these days cleaning out the rabbit hutches. It’s not a bad life.

It’s not going to last.

It may be sunny now, but winter is coming. The antimatter that fuels the colony is running low, and Marshall wants his bomb back. If Mickey agrees to retrieve it, he’ll be giving up the only thing that’s kept his head off of the chopping block. If he refuses, he might doom the entire colony. Meanwhile, the creepers have their own worries, and they’re not going to surrender the bomb without getting something in return. Once again, Mickey finds the fate of two species resting in his hands. If something goes wrong this time, though, he won’t be coming back.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.

©2023 Edward Ashton (P)2023 Macmillan Audio
Adventure Fiction Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction
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Critic reviews

"Ashton’s breezy characters, especially a few alien creepers able to communicate with the humans, delight, and the grungy details of colony life are rendered as realistically as Mickey’s hunger pangs. It’s good fun with a surprisingly effective closing twist that sci-fi fans will savor."—Publishers Weekly

"Ashton’s follow-up to his excellent Mickey7 (2022) is just as much fun as its predecessor."—Booklist

Engaging Sequel • Philosophical Exploration • Effective Voice Acting • Well-developed Characters • Strong Relationships
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Another great story and narration. It feels like there is more ahead for Mickey, but maybe that's wishful thinking.

Great story

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A follow up to Mickey 7, though about halfway through the book it loses itself for a little bit. It finds itself quickly then and gives the book a good ending.

More Mickey

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Only listened to this because I heard the movie version was coming out – which sounded a little interesting. The book was uncompelling. Once you know the slightly interesting story hook the rest of the book is pretty boring. The characters are uninteresting and the story predictable and uninteresting and the end is a nothing-burger. I only read the second book it the series because I could not believe the upcoming movie could be based on the first book. The second book “Antimatter Blues” was a little better and has a conclusion, but I could not recommend either book.

The narration was clear and understandable, but I found several of the character voices annoying.

Uncompelling

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This book picks up right on time. The story concludes the first book and can move forward to a new adventure and new planets. What a great story teller. I really care about the characters.

Love these characters

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honestly I enjoyed this entry even more than the previous one in the series. with some of the core dynamics of the first book dealt with, this book focuses more on exploring the setting of the two books and was a very enjoyable read. not super long but very enjoyable.

surpasses the first book!

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Entertaining series, reminds me a lot of the martian, different plot but similar feel. Hoping there’s another book to follow in the series.

Great for fans on the martian

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Actually better than the first book. These are some required words I have to append to the end of my short review.

Sequel good?

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The humanness of the events of such a philosophical story with the hard-to-predict plot kept me listening nonstop.

Amazing Sci-Fi.

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As strong as the first. I appreciate that the characters had a strong romantic relationship that was neither the focus of the plot nor used as a tragedy trope, People, even main characters, have relationships that exist outside of the main story. It's nice when that happens.

Solid follow-up

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A tour de force of a performance that enhances the text. Recommended for those who want to delve deeply into ideas of reincarnation and identity.

What a performance

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