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Edward Ashton

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Edward Ashton is the author of the novels Mickey7, Three Days in April and The End of Ordinary. His short fiction has appeared in venues ranging from the newsletter of an Italian sausage company to Escape Pod, Analog, and Fireside Fiction. He lives in upstate New York in a cabin in the woods (not that Cabin in the Woods) with his wife, a variable number of daughters, and an adorably mopey dog named Max, where he writes—mostly fiction, occasionally fact—under the watchful eyes of a giant woodpecker and a rotating cast of barred owls. In his free time, he enjoys cancer research, teaching quantum physics to sullen graduate students, and whittling. You can find him online at edwardashton.com or on Twitter @edashtonwriting.

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Is Mickey 7 going to stay a duet or is it going to have more books?

Edward Ashton That's an excellent (and currently open) question. My next two books, "Mal Goes to War" (available for preorder now, releasing in April, 2024) and "Cu…moreThat's an excellent (and currently open) question. My next two books, "Mal Goes to War" (available for preorder now, releasing in April, 2024) and "Currently Half-Way Through the First Draft" (releasing some time in the first half of 2025) are stand-alone novels, not connected to Mickey in any way. What happens after that will be determined after consultation with my agent, my editor, and a casting of the bones. I do have the skeleton of another Mickey book in the back of my head, but it's not 100% clear right now if or when it will ever see the light of day.(less)

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Hello Mr. Aston. I appreciated the solid physics base woven into your highly entertaining story. There was a reference to Coriolis effect that I didn't understand - when Micky7 is riding the rotating band girdling the ship (or dome) that was meant to induce the effect of gravity, he's grateful the C effect doesn't bring up his lunch. I don't understand how the C effect would dominate this. Mostly centrifugal force?

Edward Ashton Thanks for the kind words! In answer to your question: when a human is spun around an axis, there are several forces in play simultaneously. Centrifug…moreThanks for the kind words! In answer to your question: when a human is spun around an axis, there are several forces in play simultaneously. Centrifugal force presses you outward. Centripetal force (in Mickey's case applied by the floor of the carousel) balances that force and keeps you from flying away. If those were all there was, then rotation would be a perfect simulation of gravity and nobody would puke on the cyclotron ride at the county fair. Unfortunately, you're also subject to Coriolis force, which acts perpendicular to the direction of motion and the axis of rotation. The practical effect of this is to smear fluid around your inner ear whenever the orientation of your head changes, which tends to induce intense nausea in most people. That's why you're generally okay on the cyclotron as long as you stare straight ahead, but you get sick as soon as you turn your head.(less)

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	Mickey7 (Mickey7 #1) 3.78 avg rating — 51,474 ratings — published 2022 — 70 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“I’ve always believed it’s important to accept the people in your life for what they are. There’s no such thing as a perfect friend, any more than there’s any such thing as a perfect anything, and if you slag everyone in your life for their many and varied failings, you’re going to miss appreciating the good stuff they bring to the table.”
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“You are the Ship of Theseus. We all are. There is not a single living cell in my body that was alive and a part of me ten years ago, and the same is true for you. We’re constantly being rebuilt, one board at a time.”
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“It’s a truism that every new technological advancement in human history has been applied first to advance the interests of the horny. The printing press? Some Bibles, mostly porn. Antibiotics? Perfect for treating STIs.”
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