Antimatter Blues

About the book

Antimatter Blues: A Mickey7 Novel is a 2023 science fiction novel by Edward Ashton. Antimatter Blues is the sequel to Ashton's 2022 novel Mickey7, with the narrative picking up two years later.

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Where the score comes from

The sources average 7.6 across 178 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 49% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Rankings average of 7.8. That is how 7.7 comes out.

Reader voices

The most-liked reviews on Hardcover (credited to their authors).

• “Unfortunately didn't love :( had basically none of the things I liked about the first book (a look into planetary colonisation, what identity means when you're a double), and doubled-down on all the things I didn't like (everyone being written with a very similar sarcastic voice, everyone saying 'oh hell no' every 5 minutes, Marshall's moral compass making no sense, Mickey not caring much about the Creepers despite the fact that they are objectively very interesting). So much of this was repetitive fetch-quests with one-dimensional characters. I know the movie has its haters but surely ever…”

  ★ 1/5Serminerva on Hardcover

• “This is a very different story compared to Mickey7 with some better aspects and some worse aspects. Firstly, other than Mickey, a lot of the characters were very annoying. Cat, who I really liked in Mickey7, was just whining a lot of the time and didn't add anything to the story. The same goes for Lucas and Jamie but to a worse degree. Berto was alright and Nasha was also a little annoying at times. Some characters' decisions also came out of nowhere with no real reasoning, and some people just made idiotic choices. Speaker is honestly the only really good character. The thing is, this book d…”

  ★ 2/5anon on Hardcover

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