Mickey 17

Financially, Mickey Barnes is at rock bottom; creditors are after him. He sees only one way out: he signs up to be an “expendable”, a space colonist doing very dangerous work on distant planets, work he will not survive. But every time he dies, a new body of him is generated with almost all his memories intact. And so Mickey is put to work on the inhospitable ice planet Niflheim, where, of course, he is killed over and over again. When the 17th clone has perished, Mickey 18 is made. One problem: Mickey 17 is not dead... Can the two Mickeys exist at the same time? And if so, what happens then?

Edward Ashton's scifi novel Mickey7 was published in 2022, a story about mind uploading, (worthless) immortality and exploitation. South Korean director Bong Joon-ho, best known for Snowpiercer and the Oscar-winning Parasite, filmed it starring Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie and Steven Yeun.