New York Times bestselling author Chuck Wendig on Six WakesĪ taut, nerve-tingling, interstellar murder mystery with a deeply human heart."-NPR on Six Wakes. It is a gripping murder mystery that also poses the most difficult philosophical question: What does it mean to be human? - LA Times "Lafferty builds a rich and vibrant world, all within the confines of a single spaceship. James Patrick Kelly, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards on Six Wakes Mur Lafferty scores in this, her best book! Six Wakes will keep you turning pages right up to its startling climax. You like ideas in your science fiction? Lafferty does for clones what Asimov did for robots. The confined space of the colony ship Dormire is filled with feisty and memorably strange characters who bounce off one another in ways that vary from the comic to the horrific. This is one of the cleverest and most exciting murder mysteries I have ever read. Unlock the bold new science fiction thriller that Corey Doctorow call Mur's "breakout book"! And Maria isn't the only one to die recently. Maria's vat is one of seven, each one holding the clone of a crew member of the starship Dormire, each clone waiting for its previous incarnation to die so it can awaken. This is new before, when she had awakened as a new clone, her first memory was of how she died. Maria Arena awakens in a cloning vat streaked with drying blood. And the crew's newly awakened clones will have to find their killer-before he strikes again! On a space ship far from earth, someone is murdering the crew.
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