Edward Ashton
Edward Ashton is the author of six novels, including Mickey7, now a motion picture directed by Oscar winner Bong Joon-ho and starring Robert Pattinson, Mark Ruffalo, and Steven Yuen. His short fiction has appeared in venues ranging from the newsletter of an Italian sausage company to Analog, Escape Pod, and Fireside Fiction.
He holds a doctorate in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester where he provides an annual lecture series on quantum physics which has been described as “surprisingly funny, all things considered.” He was also one of the founders of the biotechnology company VirtualScopics, and has spent the past twenty years as a cancer researcher, which is mostly not funny at all.
Edward Ashton is a frequent speaker at both industry and academic conferences, where he addresses topics ranging from cancer biology to medical physics and advanced imaging technologies.
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The humans are fighting again. Go figure.
As a free A.I., Mal finds the war between the modded and augmented Federals and the puritanical Humanists about as interesting as a battle between rival anthills. He’s not above scouting the battlefield for salvage, though, and when the Humanists abruptly cut off access to infospace he finds him...Read More
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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 ...Read More
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Hardback
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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 ...Read More
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Trade Paperback
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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 t...Read More
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Did That Really Just Happen? The Story Behind Mickey17
An examination of the route that took a simple country physicist from obscurity to slightly less obscurity, with diversions for the Ship of Theseus, the teletransport paradox, and an extended digression regarding Bong Joon-ho’s amazing scarf game.
Schrödinger’s Author: A Many-Worlds Interpretation of My Improbable Life
In this talk, which ranges from the 1941 Copenhagen meeting between Neils Bohr and Werner von Heisenberg to the many-worlds interpretation of quantum physics with a brief sidebar on the maple syrup business, I examine the way the world hinges on tiny moments, and also discuss the time I met Robert Pattinson.
Artificial Intelligence in Life and Literature
Artificial intelligence has long been a staple of science fiction, from HAL 9000 to The Terminator to Bender Bending Rodriguez. Increasingly, however, AI is becoming a part of everyday life. Were all those warnings about Skynet turning us all into paperclips overblown? Maybe! Let’s find out!
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Praise for 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).
NPR Best Books of 2022
“Mickey7 is a unique blend of thought-provoking sci-fi concepts, farcical relationship drama and exotic body horror. Edward Ashton keeps it all grounded via a protagonist who experiences the wonders of interstellar travel and alien contact while literally having the worst job in the universe. The result is alternately amusing, intriguing and horrifying, with each chapter seeming to engage a different part of your brain.”
— Jason Pargin, New York Times bestselling author
“Mickey7 is a mind-bending and powerful exploration of identity. This is why we read science fiction! Highly recommended.”
— Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of Rage and Ink
“I loved Mickey 7—a smart, breezy SF novel that doubles as a pitch-black comedy of errors.”
— Dexter Palmer, critically acclaimed author of Version Control
“Fun, thoughtful, and immensely personable, Mickey7 is a brisk, spirited sci-fi romp with alien intelligences, extra lives, and a little romance, too. Hugely enjoyable.”
— Max Barry, author of Providence
“Sci-fi readers will be drawn in by the inventive premise and stick around for the plucky narrator.”
— Publishers Weekly
“Ashton’s novel begins as farce and ends as something considerably deeper; as an Expendable, Mickey7 is able to ask what makes someone human or who has the right to destroy a place in order to occupy it. Highly recommended for readers of colonization SF.”
— Library Journal, Starred Review
“A multilayered, wildly entertaining story…Ashton is a talented storyteller and MICKEY7 has something for everyone while also putting a fresh spin on the idea of clones.”
— Locus Magazine
“A sharp speculative work that is both intellectually-oriented and action-packed. [Mickey7] is smart and funny and well-crafted across the board. If you’re a fan of science fiction, you won’t regret meeting Mickey. He’s so fine.”
— The Maine Edge
“A killer premise, and its mix of social commentary, dark humor, and horrifying surprises makes it ideal for the director of Parasite.”
— The Film Stage
“Mickey7 is a smart philosophical satire masquerading as an adventure novel. It draws readers in with flippant black humor and a clever premise, then stabs them in the back with devastating insight into the human talent for suppressing intolerable truths.”
— New York Journal of Books
“The fun [in reading Mickey7] is trying to keep up with Mr. Ashton’s twists and turns, and the extra fun is that you never do.”
— The Wall Street Journal
“A wildly entertaining mix of action and big ideas peppered with humor and a bizarre love story, this novel is proof that, when done right, science fiction can be one of the most entertaining genres out there. Between fighting alien creatures, pondering what it means to be human, and looking at cloning from various perspectives, there is something for everyone here, and Ashton delivers all of it with plenty of wittiness and flair.”
— NPR
“A fast, action-filled thriller.”
— Transfer Orbit, favorite books of 2022
Praise for Antimatter Blues
“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
“A nonstop SF adventure from beginning to end.”
—Library Journal, Starred Review
Praise for Mal Goes to War
“Ashton offers a technothriller with heart that will appeal to fans of the ‘Murderbot Diaries’ from Martha Wells but also to readers looking for more AI-led stories like Day Zero by C. Robert Cargill and Emergent Properties by Aimee Ogden.”
— Library Journal, Starred Review
“Ashton’s vision of the future feels all too plausible and his blend of action and humor keeps the pages flying. This is sure to please the author’s fans.”
— Publishers Weekly
“A funny, fast-paced, fish-out-of-water tale that should satisfy Ashton’s growing fan base.”
— Booklist
“A fast-paced adventure that is told with all of the dark humor expected of an Edward Ashton book.”
— Reactor
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