When Maria Arena wakes up in a new clone, she knows that she must have died in some mysterious manner just days after embarking on a 400-year journey aboard a colony ship. The trouble is, she's not the only new clone awakening. It turns out the entire six-clone crew of the Dormire has been slaughtered and reawakened, and if that wasn't disturbing enough, they're 25 years into the journey with no memory of that time in space, and someone disabled the AI that's running the ship's processes, including navigation and gravity. Suddenly, they're in a race to fix the ship and find the killer, who must be the previous version of one of those clones. But will they be able to do it with no witnesses and unknown motives?
This is a fascinating locked-room murder mystery, with an innovative twist in that the killer certainly has no memory of their deeds. That said, it also raises a lot of fantastic questions about humanity, the ethics of cloning, and where the laws of Earth end. I can't wait to discuss this with the Orcs & Aliens book group on Monday night!
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