Six Wakes

Mur Lafferty

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Hugo Award nominee 2018, Nebula Award nominee 2017.

A space adventure set on a lone ship where the murdered crew are resurrected through cloning to discover who their killer was - and the secret to their mission.

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

At least, Marie Shea iv 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, from illness once and from injury once...

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

Published
January 30, 2017
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Mur Lafferty

An inaugural inductee of the Podcast Academy’s Hall of Fame, Mur Lafferty began podcasting in 2004 and later built her writing career from her work as a science fiction podcaster. As of 2026, Mur has written ten novels, eight novellas, and one nonfiction book that are available in stores, online retailers, and through this site. Her work has ranged from Star Wars to superhero fiction to afterlife fiction to paranormal fantasy to space murder–plus one book supporting writers based on her award winning podcast. After winning the 2013 Astounding Award for Best New Writer (formerly the Campbell Award), her work has been nominated for the Hugo,…