![]() ![]() ![]() The new clones of the other crew members prove equally amnesiac as they awaken the cloning tanks have been sabotaged and IAN, the ship's guiding artificial intelligence, has been crippled and is taking the starship off course. The latest clone of crew member Maria Arena awakens twenty-five years into the voyage to discover her most recent self, and those of the rest of the crew, murdered, and her accumulated memories of the whole trip wiped. Cloning technology is not restricted to shipboard life, and a number of laws, called the "Codicils," have sprung up around cloning after numerous abuses of genetic engineering and the "hacking" (deliberate altering) of mindmaps. The journey is anticipated to take several centuries, and is sponsored by Sallie Mignon, an eccentric multi-billionaire who financed the construction of the Dormire and is currently aboard as a colonist. All the passengers are in coldsleep only a six-person crew of cloned former criminals remains awake through the generations-long journey, each of them recloned and imprinted with their continually updated memories as they age and die. ![]() ![]() 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. Six Wakes is a science fiction mystery novel by Mur Lafferty. ![]()
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