Six Wakes, by Mur Lafferty (Orbit, 2017). A crew on a
generational space ship wakes – or rather, their clones do, a standard
procedure that usually involves downloading stored memories for continuity. The
one remaining crew, the captain, is near-death, there is blood everywhere, and
none of the clones can remember what happened. In an added twist, all of them
are criminals whose paths have crossed in the past and who have reason to hate
each other.
Skillfully handled action and discovery of information lead to one
plot twist after another. I especially liked how my initial assumptions about each
character were turned inside out in a way that gave them depth and humanity,
even the ship’s AI.
Exceptionally well-done science fiction mystery.
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