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Six wakes / Mur Lafferty.

Lafferty, Mur, (author.).

Summary:

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...

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780316389693
  • ISBN: 0316389692
  • ISBN: 9780316389662
  • ISBN: 0316389668
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Orbit, 2017.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Dedication; International Law Regarding the Codicils to Govern the Existence of Clones; Wake One: The Dormire Crew; This Is Not a Pipe; Diamonds; Depths; Failures; Spymaster Teapot; Joanna's Story; Wake Two: IAN; 36,249 Seconds Out; No Naps in Hell; Life Is Cheap; Katrina's Story; Bebe; It's Always Five O'Clock in Space; A Missing Piece; Bebe Makes a Pig; Yadokari; Hiro's Story; Wake Three: Hiro; Maria's Story; So Much Blood in Him; Paul's Story; IAN's Discovery; So Many More than Five; Wolfgang's Story; Breakdowns; Wake Four: Katrina Before
CicadaMaria's Story; Criminals; IAN's Story; Trust; Be Careful What You Wish For; Hiro's Story; Wake Five: Celebrating Life; Connections; The Value of a Life; Wake Six: Minoru Takahashi; Deus Ex Bebe; Acknowledgments; Extras; Meet the Author; Also By Mur Lafferty; Interview with Mur Lafferty; A Teaser of ""Cormorant Run; A Teaser of ""The Corporation Wars; Newsletters
Source of Description Note:
Online resource, title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 28, 2017).
Subject: Space > Juvenile literature.
Cloning > Juvenile literature.
Space > Fiction.
Cloning > Fiction.
FICTION / Science Fiction / Adventure.
FICTION / Science Fiction / Space Opera.
FICTION / Action & Adventure.
FICTION / Technological.
FICTION / Science Fiction / General
Cloning.
Space.
Genre: Action and adventure fiction.
Science fiction.
Science fiction.
Electronic books.
Action and adventure fiction.
Juvenile works.
Science fiction.


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