Six Wakes
by Mur Lafferty
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appears in Science Fiction, Science Fiction, and Mystery & Crime.
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 fi...
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appears in Science Fiction, Science Fiction, and Mystery & Crime.
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