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.

Interleaving urgent scenes with telling flashbacks, Lafferty delivers a tense nail-biter of a story fueled by memorable characters and thoughtful worldbuilding. ‘Six Wakes’ wraps a well-thought-through view of the personal and social impacts of cloning in a fiendishly intricate puzzle, enhanced by clever reveals from multiple points of view and enlivened by frequent violent death. As suspicions and hostilities rise, it's not certain who, or what, will survive. Mur Lafferty’s book is more ambitions than the early Asimov in complexity, scope and storytelling style. The confined space of the colony ship Dormire is filled with feisty and memorably strange characters who bounce off one another in ways that vary from the comic to the horrific. 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. Reviews 'Six Wakes is Mur Laffertys breakout book.'Cory Doctorow 'This is one of the cleverest and most exciting murder mysteries I have ever read. 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. In this Hugo nominated science fiction thriller by Mur Lafferty, a crew of clones awakens aboard a space ship to find theyre being hunted-and any one of them. 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. 'Six Wakes is Mur Lafferty's breakout book.'-Cory Doctorow 'Six Wakes is engrossing and thoroughly satisfying, and Lafferty succeeds at both laying down a mystery and creating a stand-alone sci-fi novel.'-Sword & Spaceships (Book Riot) 'This is one of the cleverest and most exciting murder mysteries I have ever read.

Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty