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Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty

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Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty

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A little different book this time... science fiction. We'll meet at a member's home in Bethesda.

Nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel 2018
Nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel 2018

A space adventure set on a lone ship where the clones of a murdered crew must find their murderer -- before they kill again.

It was not common to awaken in a cloning vat streaked with drying blood.

At least, Maria Arena had never experienced it. She had no memory of how she died. That was also new; before, when she had awakened as a new clone, her first memory was of how she died.

Maria's vat was in the front of six vats, each one holding the clone of a crew member of the starship Dormire, each clone waiting for its previous incarnation to die so it could awaken. And Maria wasn't the only one to die recently...

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