''Antimatter Blues: A Mickey7 Novel'' is a 2023

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by Edward Ashton. It is a direct sequel and picks up two years after the events in the 2022 novel '' Mickey7''. ''Antimatter Blues'' was listed as one of

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' 2023 "Most Anticipated New Fantasy and Science Fiction" list.

Premise

Space colonist Mickey Barnes, a.k.a. Mickey7, is a former "expendable" on the hostile colony world of Niflheim. Several years after the events of ''Mickey7'', Mickey finds himself at odds with his superior over the fate of an antimatter bomb that he hid away to make peace between the local sentient creatures and the colony. Mickey's efforts to retrieve the bomb and use its antimatter to refuel the colony's power source take him along a narrow road between two warring factions of the planet's native inhabitants: the insectoid Creepers and initially spider-like Collective. Guided by the colony's security team and Speaker, the Creeper representative, Mickey learns what it means to live life without a backup.

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