Six Wakes

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Six Wakes

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Pros & Cons

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Pros

The book is an engaging and relentless page-turner. The blurbs make it sound like a whodunit, but the book is more about exploring our fundamental sense of identity beyond race, gender, * etc.

Six wakes is a story about six people/clones (seven if you count ian the ai) who wake up to find they are on a spaceship that’s 25 years away from earth. Their previous clones have been murdered and the last 25 years of their memory has been erased.

The novel interweaves the present dilemma that the clones are attempting to solve with flashbacks for each character - sometimes multiple flashbacks. Politics and ethics of cloning are explored as well as the ability to change ones personality. The po... Read More

Structure keeps the plot tantalizingly near, yet obscure. Worldbuilding and character backstories make the whole novel delightfully more than the sums of its parts. Takes most, if not all, of the cliches and no no's of writing and does them masterfull... Read More

It's a grim whodunit with bodies and blood and * and hanging and stabbings. Tightly written, with complicated characters, you are never sure who is the *(s) a neat sci-fi * mystery, sort of like altered carbon with less misogyny and more disciplined s... Read More

Cons

The story is *, the characters are lame, the dialog is laughable. Characters are dull and inspire no empathy.

I got conned into buying this book by a clever description. Reminded me of a tv show--and not a particularly good one. Stumbles, and falls into a pinball machine.

It has strengths and weaknesses - unfortunately, more of the latter. The writing is somewhat clumsy.

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Quality

This was a recommendation from a friend and i am very grateful

A mystery that gets peeled back bit by bit with the use of character elements unfolding clues and back stories that lead to hug... Read More

The real value of this book is the take on what a clone is and how society changes with the prevalence of cloning humans

Everyone is harboring dangerous secrets and with the outlawed technology of mindhacking in the mix no one is entirely above suspicion

Shipping

And ian the ai running the ship has been damaged

The ships computer has been sabotaged so that no records are available and no further clones can be generated yet theres no on... Read More

A small crew on a one way trip and no one is who they seem including the ai running the ship

The sixman clone crew of the space colonisation ship dormier wake up to find their old bodies viciously murdered their memories... Read More

Competitiveness

I kept one star back to reflect the unimpressive english writing but for those who may not care about style as much as i do it ... Read More

I enjoyed it as a locked room mystery sortof scifi thought experiment

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This product had a total of 775 reviews as of our last analysis date on Sep 24 2022.