Six Wakes

Nominated for the 2018 Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards

Six crew. One ship. One killer.

On a spaceship far from earth, someone is murdering the crew. And the crew’s newly awakened clones will have to find their killer-before they strike again.

Maria Arena awakens in a cloning vat streaked with drying blood. She has no memory of how she died. And no one is alive to tell her; her whole crew is dead. Maria’s vat is one of six, 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. But this time no one knows who has killed them all.

Publisher:
Orbit Books, January, 2017

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Reviews

…a taut, nerve-tingling, interstellar murder mystery with a deeply human heart.
~NPR

Lafferty keeps the reader guessing and throws in just enough twists and turns to keep us on the edge of our seat . . . . I loved this book and am excited to read what Lafftery has in store for us next.
~ Barnes & Noble Science Fiction and Fantasy Blog

 

Blurbs

Mysterious and tense . . . I wish I wrote this book.
~New York Times bestselling author Chuck Wendig

This is one of the cleverest and most exciting murder mysteries I have ever read. 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. You like ideas in your science fiction? Lafferty does for clones what Asimov did for robots. Six Wakes will keep you turning pages right up to its startling climax. Mur Lafferty scores in this, her best book!
~ James Patrick Kelly, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards