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    Cover of Six Wakes

    Six Wakes

    Mur Lafferty · 2017

    "A space adventure set on a lone ship where the clones of a murdered crew must find their murderer -- before they kill again. It was not common to awaken in a cloning vat streaked with drying blood. At least, Maria Arena had never experienced it. She had no memory of how she died. That was also new; before, when she had awakened as a new clone, her first memory was of how she died. Maria's vat was in the front of six vats, each one holding the clone of a crew member of the starship Dormire, each clone waiting for its previous incarnation to die so it could awaken. And Maria wasn't the only one to die recently..."

    Science FictionFiction & Literature
    Open LibraryAmazon
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    2recommend
    3mentions
    3people
    2021–2026years
    67% recommend33% neutral

    Mentions per year

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    What Hacker News says

    1. wjb3Mar 2024
      A few ideas:

      "The Expanse" series by Corey "Six Wakes" by Lafferty: a locked-room mystery with a twist "Altered Carbon" by Morgan "Chasm City" by Reynolds

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    2. jffryJun 2021
      It's only similar to your premise, but I enjoyed Mur Lafferty's "Six Wakes", which is a scifi murder-mystery aboard a colony ship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Wakes
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