Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty was the 161st official Sword and Laser Book Club selection.
Reading Period: November 1, 2022 to November 30, 2022
How/Why was this book chosen: Tom chose it after asking for suggestions on Discord
Goodreads Group Discussion of Six Wakes
Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty[]
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...