eBook, 400 pages
English language
Published Jan. 31, 2017 by Orbit.
In this Hugo nominated science fiction thriller by Mur Lafferty, a crew of clones awakens aboard a space ship to find they’re being hunted-and any one of them could be the killer.
Maria Arena awakens in a cloning vat streaked with drying blood. She has no memory of how she died. This is new; before, when she had awakened as a new clone, her first memory was of how she died.
Maria’s vat is one of seven, each one holding the clone of a crew member of the starship Dormire, each clone waiting for its previous incarnation to die so it can awaken. And Maria isn’t the only one to die recently. . .
A solid, fun, page-turning sci fi mystery. If you go looking for plot holes and scientific shortcomings you'll undoubtedly find them, but I enjoyed the book enough not to go looking.
I had some annoyances with how the fictional science worked. Some things seem to break from the characters' understandings of their universe, but also seem to be probably never possible in our universe.
One of those things came towards the end and was critical to resolving the plot.
The book was still very entertaining though. It had me turning pages and I'd probably read a sequel.
