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Six Wakes
by Mur Lafferty
Six Wakes started with a bang. Similar to Far From the Light of Heaven, the plot surrounds a murder mystery that occurs on a spaceship. In Six Wakes, six cloned crew members awaken from cryposleep on a spaceship, with their memories gone, and their previous incarnations dead from knife wounds. Their ship’s artificial intelligence, IAN, is barely functioning, and the ship has veered off course. Also, it appears that twenty-plus years have gone by, with no memories uploaded of what may have occurred during that time, as their latest cloned backups (or “mindmaps”) have disappeared.
Six Wakes takes place in 2493, where cloning is commonplace. The world-building was pretty fantastic. The main character is Maria, a junior engineer on the ship. Other crew members (and murder suspects) include Katrina (captain), Wolfgang (first officer and security chief), Paul (chief engineer), Hiro (pilot and navigator), and Joanna (doctor). Their clones have awoken to bodies 20 years younger, when the journey first began. They need to not only solve the murders, but also get the ship’s AI working again so they can safely make it to their destination, Artemis, a planet similar to Earth that is being colonized by their 2000+ passengers, who are still in cryosleep.
The backstories of the crew members are revealed slowly. But what we know from the beginning is that all of the crew members are cloned criminals who took their jobs to expunge their criminal records and start new lives on Artemis. The pacing slows a bit in the middle section, but not enough to get bored. Overall, I really enjoyed the plot and clever resolution in Six Wakes.
Six Wakes takes place in 2493, where cloning is commonplace. The world-building was pretty fantastic. The main character is Maria, a junior engineer on the ship. Other crew members (and murder suspects) include Katrina (captain), Wolfgang (first officer and security chief), Paul (chief engineer), Hiro (pilot and navigator), and Joanna (doctor). Their clones have awoken to bodies 20 years younger, when the journey first began. They need to not only solve the murders, but also get the ship’s AI working again so they can safely make it to their destination, Artemis, a planet similar to Earth that is being colonized by their 2000+ passengers, who are still in cryosleep.
The backstories of the crew members are revealed slowly. But what we know from the beginning is that all of the crew members are cloned criminals who took their jobs to expunge their criminal records and start new lives on Artemis. The pacing slows a bit in the middle section, but not enough to get bored. Overall, I really enjoyed the plot and clever resolution in Six Wakes.