Six Wakes

Name: Six Wakes
Brand: Hachette Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.1 (10 reviews)
Author: Mur Lafferty
ISBN: 9781478913474

Author: Mur Lafferty

Narrator: Mur Lafferty

Unabridged: 9 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Orbit

Published: 01/31/2017

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction, Action & Adventure, Suspense & Thriller

Synopsis

In this Hugo nominated science fiction thriller by Mur Lafferty, a crew of clones awakens aboard a space ship to find they're being hunted-and any one of them could be the killer.

Maria Arena awakens in a cloning vat streaked with drying blood. She has no memory of how she died. This is new; before, when she had awakened as a new clone, her first memory was of how she died.

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. And Maria isn't the only one to die recently. . .

Unlock the bold new science fiction thriller that Corey Doctorow calls Mur's "breakout book".

About Mur Lafferty

Mur Lafferty is a writer, podcast producer, gamer, geek and martial artist. She loves to run, practise kung fu (Northern Shaolin five animals style), play World of Warcraft and Dragon Age and hang out with her fabulous geeky husband and their eight-year-old daughter.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Emily on April 05, 2018

I'm having a hard time rating this book. 3.5? 3.75? I think this could be a good sci fi to read if you're trying to transition from YA to Adult books. You're following a group of 6 clones-astronauts who wake up not remembering what happened. They can see their old bodies floating around but can't rem......more

Goodreads review by Philip on February 05, 2020

4/1/18 - This was voted as a Hugo finalist. Kind of baffled. I mean, it’s good, it’s entertaining, I just can’t imagine anyone putting it on their ballot as one of the five best books of the year? Not even just based on my preference, but that seems to be the consensus among my friends based on thei......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on February 12, 2017

This is a SF closed-room murder mystery! Six characters, six viewpoints, and a truly cool SF twist of constant cloning and memory re-investment. Resurrection! But instead of losing us on the immediate lack of consequences because our murdered peeps keep coming back, we're dealt a hand where whole per......more

Goodreads review by Justine on February 06, 2017

4.5 stars A really excellent mystery in space. The clone crew of a generational ship awake in freshly cloned bodies to find that they have been murdered...but none of them has any memory of the last 25 years they have crewed the ship together. A wonderful character driven story that delves deep into......more

Goodreads review by Gary on December 28, 2017

Mur Lafferty’s Six Wakes has an intriguing setup – six clones wake up on a mid-journey colony ship to find their previous incarnations brutally murdered and discover that their memories have been sabotaged and their personalities hacked as they try to get to the truth of what happened. The novel is......more

Quotes

"Six Wakes is [Mur Lafferty's] breakout book."—Cory Doctorow

"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

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

"A taut, nerve-tingling, interstellar murder mystery with a deeply human heart."—NPR

"An exquisitely crafted puzzle box that challenges our thoughts on what it means to be human - Six Wakes is a scifi murder mystery of light speed intensity."—p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Calibri; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000}span.s1 {font-kerning: none}New York Times bestselling author Scott Sigler

"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

"Lafferty delivers a tense nail-biter of a story fueled by memorable characters and thoughtful worldbuilding. This space-based locked-room murder mystery explores complex technological and moral issues in a way that's certain to earn it a spot on award ballots."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Polished writing and a cast of characters who are emotionally on edge make this space adventure a compelling murder-mystery that takes its time revealing the details necessary for readers to rule out possible culprits. The suspense is kept at the forefront of this clever, politically charged tale."—RT Books Reviews

"Lafferty delivers the ultimate locked-room mystery combined with top-notch sf worldbuilding. The puzzle of who is responsible for the devastation on the ship keeps the pages turning."—Library Journal (starred review)

"This is a great book with so much going for it: clever structure, wonderful characters, and a fiendishly clever puzzle that you'll roll over in your mind for months after you close the covers."—BoingBoing