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Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty
Sep. 23rd, 2017 03:33 pmThe Blurb On The Back:
A lone ship. A murdered crew. And a clone who must find her own killer – before they strike again.
In the depths of space, it’s pretty normal to wake up in a cloning vat. The streaks of blood, however? Not so normal.
Maria Arena has been cloned before. Usually when she awakens as a new clone, her first memory is of how she died. This time, she has no idea. Her memories are incomplete.
And Maria isn’t the only one to have died yesterday …
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Mur Lafferty’s intelligent and thought-provoking SF novel uses the device of a murder to investigate the ethical, legal and practical considerations of living as a clone and although some of the dialogue is a little stilted, Katarina and Paul are underdeveloped and the ending too pat, I really enjoyed how she weaves in the backstory for each of the characters and the way they slowly overlap and would definitely check out Lafferty’s other work.
In the depths of space, it’s pretty normal to wake up in a cloning vat. The streaks of blood, however? Not so normal.
Maria Arena has been cloned before. Usually when she awakens as a new clone, her first memory is of how she died. This time, she has no idea. Her memories are incomplete.
And Maria isn’t the only one to have died yesterday …
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Mur Lafferty’s intelligent and thought-provoking SF novel uses the device of a murder to investigate the ethical, legal and practical considerations of living as a clone and although some of the dialogue is a little stilted, Katarina and Paul are underdeveloped and the ending too pat, I really enjoyed how she weaves in the backstory for each of the characters and the way they slowly overlap and would definitely check out Lafferty’s other work.
