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I recently succumbed to the urge to rewatch hbomberguy's classic, Sherlock Is Garbage and Here's Why (this has somehow become a comfort watch for me, don't ask). Reading this book, I was reminded of his criticism of Steven Moffat's earlier show, Jekyll: why start with a fabulous in media res beginning, only to weigh down the rest of your narrative with flashbacks that explain everything?
This book does that. There's a great opening where six clones awake on a spaceship, realize that they were all ...more
This book does that. There's a great opening where six clones awake on a spaceship, realize that they were all ...more
Six clones have just awoken on a ship headed to colonize a new planet. The six-person crew has no memories of their time on the ship, as their previous incarnations were murdered before they could upload updated mindmaps - meaning they have only the bodies before them, several stabbed, one poisoned, another hung, to go on for clues, since the ship's AI, IAN, tells them the ship's logs have been deleted. Finding the killer won't be easy, since all of the clones are criminals, serving several life
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So, a group of clones wake up on a spaceship. They've been killed. They have no memory of it, or of any part of the last 25 years. And they all have secrets. Ta-da! A locked ship mystery.
As a mystery story, this worked. The solution is telegraphed a little too much -- it was easy to figure out most of what was going on, pretty early on -- but there was one twist that did surprise me. (And yet it was not the ridiculous Twist Too Far that you often get.) As a science fiction story, this worked. I ...more
As a mystery story, this worked. The solution is telegraphed a little too much -- it was easy to figure out most of what was going on, pretty early on -- but there was one twist that did surprise me. (And yet it was not the ridiculous Twist Too Far that you often get.) As a science fiction story, this worked. I ...more
I really enjoyed this book. The premise was a bit different from what the synopsis made it sound like-- I was expecting the crew would wake up in new cloned bodies with amnesia six times, and it would be a race to see how they could make themselves remember things between deaths-- but it was more like a locked room mystery, trying to piece together what happened from the clues available and the knowledge that only the six of them were awake when the murders took place.
Except as the story unfolds ...more
Except as the story unfolds ...more
I kept thinking as I read this (for the second time, for book group) that this would make an excellent tv series. Something about it reads as if it is meant to be visual. The flashback character viewpoints would make excellent individual episodes, and the visual medium means you wouldn't be distracted by the characters' lack of interiority.
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This is the last book I read off this murder mysteries in space list from BookRiot, and when ranking them later I put it at a solid middle.
(The egregiously basic The Vacuum of Space came last and the utterly perfect Fugitive Telemetry was number one.)
It's one of the three books included on the list that follows a basic "we're on a spaceship and weird things are happening or happened, leaving us a mystery to solve" plot, and I put this one in the middle of those, too (I liked it better than Far ...more
(The egregiously basic The Vacuum of Space came last and the utterly perfect Fugitive Telemetry was number one.)
It's one of the three books included on the list that follows a basic "we're on a spaceship and weird things are happening or happened, leaving us a mystery to solve" plot, and I put this one in the middle of those, too (I liked it better than Far ...more
It's a murder mystery, six people alone in a space ship (seven if you count the AI) are murdered; when their clones awaken, their most recent memories, including the murders, are gone...
It's an examination of possible societal changes when you can transfer your consciousness, and your property, to your clone when you die...
It's a consideration of revenge and redemption
Includes some really stupid laws for cloning but justifies them with politics. ...more
It's an examination of possible societal changes when you can transfer your consciousness, and your property, to your clone when you die...
It's a consideration of revenge and redemption
Includes some really stupid laws for cloning but justifies them with politics. ...more
New author for me, enjoyed the ride on this adventure.
Loved the discussions of the ethics of cloning.
I lost the momentum on this one, too. I’ll try again in a bit because I did enjoy what I managed to read.
Jan 11, 2017
Willow
marked it as to-read
Feb 06, 2017
Esther
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Jun 12, 2017
rachelish
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Aug 22, 2017
Laurie
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Sep 29, 2017
Jain
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it was ok
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katayoun Masoodi
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