REISSUES
Pick of the paperbacks: Edward Ashton’s
MICKEY7
( , 2 February, Solaris), which is lined up to become a Bong Joon-Ho movie. Set in a future where you can have your memories downloaded into a new body when you die, it follows the titular “expendable” during a colonising expedition. Surviving an encounter with killer insects, Mickey7 returns to base to find his eighth incarnation has already been created. We said: “A lot of fun… part ’50s B-movie, part farce, with the kind of worldweary, blue-collar characters you’d expect in an ’80s sci-fi flick.” One Thousand and One Nights was an inspiration for Chelsea Abdullah’s