This was a sci-fi book with an interesting idea, a person whose job on a mission to colonize a planet is to do all the dangerous jobs fully expecting to die – and then have his body (and consciousness) rebuilt and spit out of the generator for another go.
The story reminded me a bit of the movie Moon with Sam Rockwell, and also a bit of the book The Martian by Andy Weir. Like in The Martian, the character here is talking directly to you, and so the background and information of the world comes to you conversationally. That means a lot of information download, and so the book is filled with telling rather than showing, which felt a little dry.
Mickey, the main character(s) is kind of a smart-ass and was trying to be funny all the time. He was funny some of the time, but for the most part it kind of grated on me after a while. The opportunity to explore the universe is here for him but he seems to mainly focus on cracking jokes.
I did like the book – it had a lot of good imaginative sequences and it was fun for a short read. Maybe it would have worked better as a short story?
Next I am reading Fulfillment by Alec MacGillis.
