6/4/2023 0 Comments Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty1 Summary edit The story takes place aboard the Dormire, a starship carrying thousands of prospective colonists from Earth to a planet in the Tau Ceti star system. It was first published in trade paperback and ebook by Orbit Books in January 2017. 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. Six Wakes is a science fiction mystery novel by Mur Lafferty. Interleaving urgent scenes with telling flashbacks, Lafferty delivers a tense nail-biter of a story fueled by memorable characters and thoughtful worldbuilding. As suspicions and hostilities rise, it’s not certain who, or what, will survive. One of them-maybe more than one-is a murderer, the ship is off course, the ship’s AI is offline, all records have been deleted, and there’s no way to communicate with Earth. But nearly 25 years into the mission, the crew awaken in the middle of a bloody crime scene. The ship Dormire carries 2,000 cryo-sleeping colonists and a crew of six clones with criminal pasts who are hoping to build new lives with clean slates. Ecological collapse and social and political upheaval have convinced humans to colonize another world: the Earth-like planet Artemis, orbiting Tau Ceti. Lafferty ( The Shambling Guide to New York City) takes readers aboard an ill-fated colony ship crewed by criminals in this taut science fiction thriller.
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