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What follows is a LockedRoomMystery with a hefty side helping of CloningBlues, set against a backdrop of a 24th century Earth racked by wars, ecological disaster, and the ethics and ramifications of cloning and brain uploading... And, of course, the hacking thereof.
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What follows is a LockedRoomMystery with a hefty side helping of CloningBlues, cloning, set against a backdrop of a 24th century Earth racked by wars, ecological disaster, and the ethics and ramifications of cloning and brain uploading... And, of course, the hacking thereof.
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** One of the {{Necessary Weasel}}s of the novel. Minds have to be copied before they can be downloaded into fresh bodies, which is how the clones can maintain their immortality. Minor issues crop up when there's a gap in memory, due to a clone dying and between backups, but it's typically pretty minor. Typically.
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** One of the {{Necessary Weasel}}s AcceptableBreaksFromReality of the novel. Minds have to be copied before they can be downloaded into fresh bodies, which is how the clones can maintain their immortality. Minor issues crop up when there's a gap in memory, due to a clone dying and between backups, but it's typically pretty minor. Typically.
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* {{Phlebotinum}}: Another NecessaryWeasel for life aboard the ''Dormire''. "Lyfe" is a synthetic protein that can be used by biological 3D printers to create anything. It fuels not only the cloning tanks but the food printers which nourish the crew. Afterwards, any leftovers or by-products are broken back down into Lyfe. Convenient!
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* {{Phlebotinum}}: Another NecessaryWeasel One of the AcceptableBreaksFromReality for life aboard the ''Dormire''. "Lyfe" is a synthetic protein that can be used by biological 3D printers to create anything. It fuels not only the cloning tanks but the food printers which nourish the crew. Afterwards, any leftovers or by-products are broken back down into Lyfe. Convenient!
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* DeaderThanDead: One of the crew's first discoveries upon being reborn is that someone wiped the computer that controls the cloning vats. Unless they can reprogram it, and restore (or rebuild) the crew's DNA matrices, the mission has failed on grounds of "Crew died of natural causes (and were not respawned) less than a quarter of the way there."
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* FinalDeath: One of the crew's first discoveries upon being reborn is that someone wiped the computer that controls the cloning vats. Unless they can reprogram it, and restore (or rebuild) the crew's DNA matrices, the mission has failed on grounds of "Crew died of natural causes (and were not respawned) less than a quarter of the way there."
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* ImmortalsFearDeath: {{ZigZagged}}, since it's ResurrectiveImmortality, dying wasn't that bad. But FinalDeath being KilledOffForReal was something they still feared the way a normal human would fear death.
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* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Justified, given that clones have lifetimes to study anything they want. Even then, only one character has sunk time into more than one field.
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* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Justified, given that clones have lifetimes to study anything they want. Even then, only one character has sunk time into more than one field. [[spoiler: Also, Maria, with a twist. She turns out to be a master hacker, with few to no rivals. Her skills also extended to mindmap and genetic manipulation, which would require very different sets of skills, but were considered to be "hacking." Apparently the technology to manipulate both used computer code analogues.]]
* OneDegreeOfSeparation: As it turns out, nearly everybody on the crew was connected in some way, and all of them but Dr. Glass had at least met Sallie Mignon, the wealthiest and most influential person on Earth. [[spoiler: Maria was Sallie's personal hacker; she was coerced into the hack on Wolfgang while he was still a prominent priest for political and social influence (though despair would cause him to shift to being an assassin that targeted clones); and Maria was also coerced into the hack on Hiro (who had apparently been selected at random) for Sallie's pet project of creating at least two assassins, one of whom was killed by Wolfgang when their existence was uncovered. Katrina had met Sallie once, and given a job offer the day before a party that Sallie was to be killed at. (Sallie apparently took being targeted for an assassination personally.) Paul, a vocal anti-clone activist at the time, though a desperate and out-of-work engineer, had met Sallie during a job interview while applying to a position at her college; he was a nobody, but his nerve and desperation irked Sally, and she disliked him for his activism anyways. Paul's hatred of clones was rooted in the previous centuries, where Sallie was trapped in a burning building during riots, Maria ran in after her and was followed by Paul's emergency worker ancestors, and the building collapsed; Sallie and Maria just came back, but Paul's heroic ancestors were fully human, and were simply dead. After Minoru, aka IAN, was a friend of Hiro's in prison, and had met Dr. Glass before while acting as interpreter for the Chinese delegate during the summit to pass the codicils, though Dr. Glass was otherwise uninvolved in the lives of everyone else beside formulating and passing the most influential laws over their lives.]]
* OneDegreeOfSeparation: As it turns out, nearly everybody on the crew was connected in some way, and all of them but Dr. Glass had at least met Sallie Mignon, the wealthiest and most influential person on Earth. [[spoiler: Maria was Sallie's personal hacker; she was coerced into the hack on Wolfgang while he was still a prominent priest for political and social influence (though despair would cause him to shift to being an assassin that targeted clones); and Maria was also coerced into the hack on Hiro (who had apparently been selected at random) for Sallie's pet project of creating at least two assassins, one of whom was killed by Wolfgang when their existence was uncovered. Katrina had met Sallie once, and given a job offer the day before a party that Sallie was to be killed at. (Sallie apparently took being targeted for an assassination personally.) Paul, a vocal anti-clone activist at the time, though a desperate and out-of-work engineer, had met Sallie during a job interview while applying to a position at her college; he was a nobody, but his nerve and desperation irked Sally, and she disliked him for his activism anyways. Paul's hatred of clones was rooted in the previous centuries, where Sallie was trapped in a burning building during riots, Maria ran in after her and was followed by Paul's emergency worker ancestors, and the building collapsed; Sallie and Maria just came back, but Paul's heroic ancestors were fully human, and were simply dead. After Minoru, aka IAN, was a friend of Hiro's in prison, and had met Dr. Glass before while acting as interpreter for the Chinese delegate during the summit to pass the codicils, though Dr. Glass was otherwise uninvolved in the lives of everyone else beside formulating and passing the most influential laws over their lives.]]
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** Other implications are explored as well. [[spoiler: Transforming a mind from analogue wetware to digital information opens it up to copy/paste, editing, and installing it in things where it shouldn't go. The implications are explored with the various clones' backstories.]]
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* FiveTokenBand: Katrina and Maria both have Hispanic surnames. Hiro is of Japanese origin. Joanna Glass has a congenital defect that causes her to be born without legs, requiring either wheelchairs or prostheses. Wolfgang, the security officer and XO, is native of Luna and has problems with Earth-standard gravity, making him an outsider regardless of race/ethnicity. Engineer Paul is mentioned that he's an American, but his behavior makes him clearly neuroatypical, likely suffering from a form of clinical depression.
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* FiveTokenBand: Katrina and Maria both have Hispanic surnames. Hiro is of Japanese origin. Joanna Glass has a congenital defect that causes her to be born without legs, requiring either wheelchairs or prostheses. Wolfgang, the security officer and XO, is native of Luna and has problems with Earth-standard gravity, making him an outsider regardless of race/ethnicity. Engineer Paul is mentioned that he's to be an American, but his behavior makes him clearly neuroatypical, likely suffering from a form of clinical depression.
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* MysteriousBenefactor: Sallie Mignon is the most powerful businessperson in the world. She personally financed the construction of the ''Dormire'', is aboard it in cryo, and hand-picked its six crew members. Unsurprisingly, she shows up frequently in flashbacks.
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* MysteriousBenefactor: Sallie Mignon is the most powerful businessperson in the world. She personally financed the construction of the ''Dormire'', is aboard it in cryo, and hand-picked its six crew members. Unsurprisingly, she shows up frequently in flashbacks. [[spoiler: She is, in fact, not aboard. The mission was designed from the ground up to appear to cover every but in reality designed to fail. On Katrina's advice, Sallie gave the crew hope that would be crushed utterly when they were at their most vulnerable. The crew and passengers were selected from Sallie's many, many enemies for a reason.]]
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* PrisonersWork: The crew of the ''Dormire'' (barring IAN) were all criminals offered a full pardon and their slate wiped clean should they crew the ship to another system. While their criminal records could be expunged, the powers that made these offers were at least honest enough to admit that they could [[NeverLiveItDown never actually wipe away the reputations of the crew]], so long as they still lived in Earth's sphere of influence. Effectively leaving society to start a new one altogether was the only realistic option.
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* PrisonersWork: The crew of the ''Dormire'' (barring IAN) were all criminals offered a full pardon and their slate wiped clean should they crew the ship to another system. While their criminal records could be expunged, the powers that made these offers were at least honest enough to admit that they could [[NeverLiveItDown [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten never actually wipe away the reputations of the crew]], so long as they still lived in Earth's sphere of influence. Effectively leaving society to start a new one altogether was the only realistic option.
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* BodySurf: {{Averted}}. One of the codicils outlaws it, and there was mention made of research revealing that putting a mind into a body that wasn't made for it will almost always drive somebody insane.
* CoolShip: The ''Dormire'' is a large ship that uses centrifugal gravity, holds thousands of humans on ice as well as the mindmaps of hundreds of clones, millions of gallons of the Lyfe protein, and has nearly everything for a crew's comfort, including a theater, a gym, and a large indoor park with a lake (which also doubles as their life support and water reserve).
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** {{Discussed}}. Most clones think this to be the case, since they usually have enough money to get killed at night and be resurrected by morning. After Katrina left the military, she became one of a caste of Latin America's assassins that specialize in corporate hits and never target regular humans; they were basically social props who livened up parties with a reversible murder. Her next hit came to Katrina's house before the party she was supposed to be killed at, and simply mentioned the whole thing was little more than schoolyard humiliation and didn't accomplish anything substantive, and offering Katrina a position on the ''Dormire'' would be her chance at actually doing something that mattered again. The next morning (after her victim was polite enough to die dramatically and was resurrected that morning), Katrina contacted her to accept the offer.
** {{Subverted}} in the present of the story. Without the crews mindmaps and genomes on hand, and none of the tools necessary to remake them, if they died, it would be the end. Something a bit harrowing, since not a single one of them knew who to trust.
* DeathIsCheap:
** {{Discussed}}. Most clones think this to be the case, since they usually have enough money to get killed at night and be resurrected by morning. After Katrina left the military, she became one of a caste of Latin America's assassins that specialize in corporate hits and never target regular humans; they were basically social props who livened up parties with a reversible murder. Her next hit came to Katrina's house before the party she was supposed to be killed at, and simply mentioned the whole thing was little more than schoolyard humiliation and didn't accomplish anything substantive, and offering Katrina a position on the ''Dormire'' would be her chance at actually doing something that mattered again. The next morning (after her victim was polite enough to die dramatically and was resurrected that morning), Katrina contacted her to accept the offer.
** {{Subverted}} in the present of the story. Without the crews mindmaps and genomes on hand, and none of the tools necessary to remake them, if they died, it would be the end. Something a bit harrowing, since not a single one of them knew who to trust.
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* FiveTokenBand: Katrina and Maria both have Hispanic surnames. Hiro is of Japanese origin. Joanna Glass has a congenital defect that causes her to be born without legs, requiring either wheelchairs or prostheses. Wolfgang, the security officer and XO, is native of Luna and has problems with Earth-standard gravity, making him an outsider regardless of race/ethnicity. Engineer Paul's background isn't specified, although the surname "Seurat" suggests ancestry in France or a onetime French colony.
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* FiveTokenBand: Katrina and Maria both have Hispanic surnames. Hiro is of Japanese origin. Joanna Glass has a congenital defect that causes her to be born without legs, requiring either wheelchairs or prostheses. Wolfgang, the security officer and XO, is native of Luna and has problems with Earth-standard gravity, making him an outsider regardless of race/ethnicity. Engineer Paul's background isn't specified, although the surname "Seurat" suggests ancestry in France or Paul is mentioned that he's an American, but his behavior makes him clearly neuroatypical, likely suffering from a onetime French colony.form of clinical depression.
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* NoTranshumanismAllowed: {{Downplayed}}, but still present.
** While society still accepts the effectively immortal clones and the mind uploading technology to make them, there's still a lot of prejudice and the utilization of both is very heavily restricted.
** Clones are not allowed to fully utilize their ability to copy themselves other than to have a continuous presence. They may have only of themselves active at a time. If a new clone pops up prematurely for any reason, the new one is considered to hold the legal identity, and the old one is to be euthanized as soon as possible. Further simplifying the matter, they're not allowed to have children
** Mental reprogramming and genetic engineering, while extremely powerful tools, were outlawed and made ''extremely'' illegal due to some incredibly unethical uses that involved hacking minds for another's purposes, or changing the DNA of a kid at the behest of the parents and [[KillAndReplace "substituting"]] the original child. Humanity is stuck with things like mental and genetic disorders because of these practices, and the implications of these technologies remain largely unexplored outside of the criminal world.
** While society still accepts the effectively immortal clones and the mind uploading technology to make them, there's still a lot of prejudice and the utilization of both is very heavily restricted.
** Clones are not allowed to fully utilize their ability to copy themselves other than to have a continuous presence. They may have only of themselves active at a time. If a new clone pops up prematurely for any reason, the new one is considered to hold the legal identity, and the old one is to be euthanized as soon as possible. Further simplifying the matter, they're not allowed to have children
** Mental reprogramming and genetic engineering, while extremely powerful tools, were outlawed and made ''extremely'' illegal due to some incredibly unethical uses that involved hacking minds for another's purposes, or changing the DNA of a kid at the behest of the parents and [[KillAndReplace "substituting"]] the original child. Humanity is stuck with things like mental and genetic disorders because of these practices, and the implications of these technologies remain largely unexplored outside of the criminal world.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: the ship is run by an AI called IAN -- "[[FunWithAcronyms Integrated Adaptive Network]]". IAN actually has functional control of the mission, as his authority supersedes that of the captain. Despite this, he doesn't do much except be a DeadpanSnarker... Until the PlotTwist, at least.
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* AndTheAdventureContinues: the story ends when the murder mystery is resolved, which doesn't take the remaining 375 years of the voyage. (As a matter of fact, it only takes 5 days.)
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* EncyclopediaExposita: the very first page of the book lists the Codicils, seven laws that dictate the ethical and legal rights of clones.
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* FlashBack: the detailed history of each clone is unveiled as time passes, including some [[PointOfView Third-Person Omniscient]] escapades that characters ''shouldn't'' remember due to being hit with LaserGuidedAmnesia.
* FourStarBadass: part of Katrina's BackStory is that she was the first clone ever to make the rank of General.
* GenderEqualEnsemble: the crew.
* GenerationShip: the ''Dormire''. Unusually for a ship of this type, however, it runs off clones instead of plain old sexual reproduction.
* HopeSpot: [[spoiler:the entire mission is one writ large. The ''Dormire'' offers a way out for people tired of living on an Earth racked by ecological crisis and still recovering from the political instability caused by the existence of cloning. What none of the crew or colonists know is that Sallie Mignon handpicked them personally... ''Because they are her enemies''. And FailureIsTheOnlyOption because the six crew members were selected specifically to get at each other's throats.]]
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* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:Sallie Mignon designed the ''Dormire'''s mission to fail, counting on the six crew members to turn on each other and doom of the {{Human Popsicle}}s, all of whom were her political enemies on Earth, to certain death in space]].
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* FiveTokenBand: Katrina and Maria both have Hispanic surnames. Hiro is of Japanese origin. Joanna Glass has a congenital defect that causes her to be born without legs, requiring either wheelchairs or prostheses. Wolfgang, the security officer and XO, is native of Luna and has problems with Earth-standard gravity. Only Paul, the chief engineer, defaults to being a white man by virtue of having nothing in particular said about him.
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* FiveTokenBand: Katrina and Maria both have Hispanic surnames. Hiro is of Japanese origin. Joanna Glass has a congenital defect that causes her to be born without legs, requiring either wheelchairs or prostheses. Wolfgang, the security officer and XO, is native of Luna and has problems with Earth-standard gravity. Only Paul, gravity, making him an outsider regardless of race/ethnicity. Engineer Paul's background isn't specified, although the chief engineer, defaults to being a white man by virtue of having nothing surname "Seurat" suggests ancestry in particular said about him.France or a onetime French colony.
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* StepfordSnarker: Oh, ''Hiro.'' [[spoiler:Turns out he uses snark as a way of controlling his [[EnemyWithin evil yadokari]].]]
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''Six Wakes'' is a ScienceFiction / [[MysteryFiction Mystery]] novel. It was the debut of author Mur Lafferty, who [[Podcast/IShouldBeWriting should be writing]].
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''Six Wakes'' is a ScienceFiction / [[MysteryFiction Mystery]] novel. It was the debut of author Mur Lafferty, Creator/MurLafferty, who [[Podcast/IShouldBeWriting should be writing]].
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* KnightsTemplar: a firebrand priest on Luna, Gunter Orman, was the leader of the anti-clone sentiment, claiming that they were -- must be -- {{Soulless Shell}}s. When he recanted his statement, the clone riots started.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: the ship is run by an AI called IAN -- "integrated adaptive Network". IAN actually has functional control of the mission, as his authority supersedes that of the captain. Despite this, he doesn't do much except be a DeadpanSnarker... Until the PlotTwist, at least.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: the ship is run by an AI called IAN -- "integrated adaptive Network"."[[FunWithAcronyms Integrated Adaptive Network]]". IAN actually has functional control of the mission, as his authority supersedes that of the captain. Despite this, he doesn't do much except be a DeadpanSnarker... Until the PlotTwist, at least.
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* BeenThereShapedHistory: [[spoiler:Hiro, and multiple clones created of him with yadokari and worse, is the reason for the restrictive laws forbidding any sort of mindmap hacking, even beneficial ones. Wolfgang is Fr. Orman, tortured for compliance and then hacked when he wouldn't break. Maria was responsible for both hacks, tortured for compliance. Joanna, then a senator, pushed the Codicils through.]]
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* BeenThereShapedHistory: [[spoiler:Hiro, and multiple clones created of him with yadokari and worse, is the reason for the restrictive laws forbidding any sort of mindmap hacking, even beneficial ones. Wolfgang is Fr. Orman, tortured for compliance and then hacked when he wouldn't break. Maria was responsible for both hacks, tortured for compliance. These events are part of what spurred Joanna, then a senator, pushed to have the Codicils through.passed.]]
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** TheEngineer: Paul, responsible for not only maintaining the ship but also IAN, the AI.
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** TheEngineer: Paul, Paul Seurat, responsible for not only maintaining the ship but also IAN, the AI.
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* EncyclopediaExposita: the very first page of the book lists the Codicils, of seven laws that dictate the ethical and legal rights of clones.
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* EncyclopediaExposita: the very first page of the book lists the Codicils, of seven laws that dictate the ethical and legal rights of clones.clones.
* FantasticRacism: the prejudice against clones is thoroughly explored.
* FantasticRacism: the prejudice against clones is thoroughly explored.
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* FiveTokenBand: Katrina and Maria are both of Hispanic descent. Hiro is of Japanese origin. Joanna Glass has a congenital defect that causes her to be born without legs, requiring either wheelchairs or prostheses. Wolfgang, the security officer and XO, is a native to Luna and has problems with Earth standard gravity. Only Paul, the chief engineer, defaults to being a white man by virtue of having nothing in particular said about him.
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* FiveTokenBand: Katrina and Maria are both of have Hispanic descent.surnames. Hiro is of Japanese origin. Joanna Glass has a congenital defect that causes her to be born without legs, requiring either wheelchairs or prostheses. Wolfgang, the security officer and XO, is a native to of Luna and has problems with Earth standard Earth-standard gravity. Only Paul, the chief engineer, defaults to being a white man by virtue of having nothing in particular said about him.
* GenderEqualEnsemble: the crew.
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* HopeSpot: [[spoiler:the entire mission is one writ large. The ''Dormire'' offers a way out for people tired of living on an earth racked by ecological crisis and still recovering from the political instability caused by the existence of cloning. What none of the crew or colonists know is that Sallie Mignon handpicked them personally... Because they are her enemies. And FailureIsTheOnlyOption because the six crew members were selected specifically to get at each other's throats.]]
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* HopeSpot: [[spoiler:the entire mission is one writ large. The ''Dormire'' offers a way out for people tired of living on an earth Earth racked by ecological crisis and still recovering from the political instability caused by the existence of cloning. What none of the crew or colonists know is that Sallie Mignon handpicked them personally... Because ''Because they are her enemies.enemies''. And FailureIsTheOnlyOption because the six crew members were selected specifically to get at each other's throats.]]
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* BeenThereShapedHistory: [[spoiler:Hiro, and multiple clones created of him with yadokari and worse, is the reason for the restrictive laws forbidding any sort of mindmap hacking, even beneficial ones. Wolfgang is Fr. Orten, tortured for compliance and then hacked when he wouldn't break. Maria was responsible for both hacks, tortured for compliance. Joanna, then a senator, pushed the Codicils through.]]
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* BeenThereShapedHistory: [[spoiler:Hiro, and multiple clones created of him with yadokari and worse, is the reason for the restrictive laws forbidding any sort of mindmap hacking, even beneficial ones. Wolfgang is Fr. Orten, Orman, tortured for compliance and then hacked when he wouldn't break. Maria was responsible for both hacks, tortured for compliance. Joanna, then a senator, pushed the Codicils through.]]
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* KnightsTemplar: a firebrand priest on Luna, Gunter Orten, was the leader of the anti-clone sentiment, claiming that they were -- must be -- {{Soulless Shell}}s. When he recanted his statement, the clone riots started.
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* KnightsTemplar: a firebrand priest on Luna, Gunter Orten, Orman, was the leader of the anti-clone sentiment, claiming that they were -- must be -- {{Soulless Shell}}s. When he recanted his statement, the clone riots started.
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* SoullessShell: Fr. Orten believed that clones are these. Wolfgang believes that people who have had their mindmaps hacked are these. [[spoiler:Since Wolfgang is a clone of Fr. Orten who has had his mindmap hacked, he speaks from experience. Interestingly, by the time of the novel, he appears to have genuinely abandoned the first belief.]]
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* SoullessShell: Fr. Orten Orman believed that clones are these. Wolfgang believes that people who have had their mindmaps hacked are these. [[spoiler:Since Wolfgang is a clone of Fr. Orten Orman who has had his mindmap hacked, he speaks from experience. Interestingly, by the time of the novel, he appears to have genuinely abandoned the first belief.]]
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* TortureAlwaysWorks: on Maria, which makes it tricky for her to avoid unethical work. Especially since, ''after'' the torture works, her assailants can just kill her without bothering to update her mindmap, a shortcut to LaserGuidedAmnesia if ever there was one. Her "forgotten" exploits include [[spoiler:the yadokari and hatchet jobs on Hiro, the brainwashing of Fr. Orten, and the consigning of Minoru Takahashi to life as an AI.]]
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* TortureAlwaysWorks: on Maria, which makes it tricky for her to avoid unethical work. Especially since, ''after'' the torture works, her assailants can just kill her without bothering to update her mindmap, a shortcut to LaserGuidedAmnesia if ever there was one. Her "forgotten" exploits include [[spoiler:the yadokari and hatchet jobs on Hiro, the brainwashing of Fr. Orten, Orman, and the consigning of Minoru Takahashi to life as an AI.]]
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* FouRStarBadass: part of Katrina's BackStory is that she was the first clone ever to make the rank of General.
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* FouRStarBadass: FourStarBadass: part of Katrina's BackStory is that she was the first clone ever to make the rank of General.
* SoullessShell: Fr. Orten believed that clones are these. Wolfgang believes that people who have had their mindmaps hacked are these. [[spoiler:Since Wolfgang is a clone of Fr. Orten who has had his mindmap hacked, he speaks from experience. Interestingly, by the time of the novel, he appears to have genuinely abandoned the first belief.]]
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* TortureAlwaysWorks: on Maria, which makes it tricky for her to avoid unethical work. Especially since, ''after'' the torture works, her assailants can just kill her without bothering to update her mindmap, a shortcut to LaserGuidedAmnesia if ever there was one. Her "forgotten" exploits include [[spoiler:the yadokari and hatchet jobs on Hiro, the brainwashing of Fr. Orten and the consigning of Minoru Takahashi to life as an AI.]]
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* TortureAlwaysWorks: on Maria, which makes it tricky for her to avoid unethical work. Especially since, ''after'' the torture works, her assailants can just kill her without bothering to update her mindmap, a shortcut to LaserGuidedAmnesia if ever there was one. Her "forgotten" exploits include [[spoiler:the yadokari and hatchet jobs on Hiro, the brainwashing of Fr. Orten Orten, and the consigning of Minoru Takahashi to life as an AI.]]
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* MysteriousBenefactor: Sallie Mignon is the most powerful business person in the world. She personally financed the construction of the door mirror and hand-picked its six crew members. Unsurprisingly, she shows up frequently in flashbacks.
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* MysteriousBenefactor: Sallie Mignon is the most powerful business person businessperson in the world. She personally financed the construction of the door mirror ''Dormire'', is aboard it in cryo, and hand-picked its six crew members. Unsurprisingly, she shows up frequently in flashbacks.
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* BeenThereShapedHistory: [[spoilers:Hiro, and multiple clones created of him with yadokari and worse, is the reason for the restrictive laws forbidding any sort of mindmap hacking, even beneficial ones. Wolfgang is Fr. Orten, tortured for compliance and then hacked when he wouldn't break. Maria was responsible for both hacks, tortured for compliance. Joanna, then a senator, pushed the Codicils through.]]
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* BeenThereShapedHistory: [[spoilers:Hiro, [[spoiler:Hiro, and multiple clones created of him with yadokari and worse, is the reason for the restrictive laws forbidding any sort of mindmap hacking, even beneficial ones. Wolfgang is Fr. Orten, tortured for compliance and then hacked when he wouldn't break. Maria was responsible for both hacks, tortured for compliance. Joanna, then a senator, pushed the Codicils through.]]
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''Six Wakes'' is a ScienceFiction / [[MysteryFiction Mystery]] novel. It was the debut of author Mur Lafferty, who [[Podcast/IShouldBeWriting should be writing]].
Maria Arena wakes up in a cloning tank. She is the most junior crew member on the ''Dormire'', a GenerationShip carrying thousands of {{Human Popsicle}}s and a crew of six clones who will respawn over and over again over the course of the four-hundred-year journey, retaining their memories by virtue of BrainUploading. The problem is that Maria does not have any new memories past the launch of the ship 25 years ago. Neither do any of the other five crew members, all of whom are also freshly reborn. The presence of a former Maria -- stabbed to death but still warm -- suggest that things have gone horribly wrong. And, of course, the entire crew, Maria included, are convicted criminals, who took on the job to commute their sentences.
What follows is a LockedRoomMystery with a hefty side helping of CloningBlues, set against a backdrop of a 24th century Earth racked by wars, ecological disaster, and the ethics and ramifications of cloning and brain uploading... And, of course, the hacking thereof.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: the ship is run by an AI called IAN -- "integrated adaptive Network". IAN actually has functional control of the mission, as his authority supersedes that of the captain. Despite this, he doesn't do much except be a DeadpanSnarker... Until the PlotTwist, at least.
* AlmightyJanitor: Maria has the most menial job of the six, limited to cooking and housecleaning. As her HiddenDepths come into play, it becomes clear that [[spoiler:she's one of the most gifted hackers in history, a skill that proves incredibly important as time passes.]]
* AndTheAdventureContinues: the story ends when the murder mystery is resolved, which doesn't take the remaining 375 years of the voyage. (As a matter of fact, it only takes 5 days.)
* BecomeARealBoy: [[spoiler:What IAN ultimately wants. Also slightly subverted, in that he was one to begin with.]]
* BeenThereShapedHistory: [[spoilers:Hiro, and multiple clones created of him with yadokari and worse, is the reason for the restrictive laws forbidding any sort of mindmap hacking, even beneficial ones. Wolfgang is Fr. Orten, tortured for compliance and then hacked when he wouldn't break. Maria was responsible for both hacks, tortured for compliance. Joanna, then a senator, pushed the Codicils through.]]
* BrainInAJar: [[spoiler:IAN is revealed to actually be the mindmap of a genius named Minoru Takahashi who has been artificially transplanted into a computer network.]]
* BrainUploading: one of the {{Necessary Weasel}}s of the novel.
* CloningBlues: one of the novel's main themes.
* CommandRoster:
** TheCaptain: Katrina de la Cruz.
** NumberTwo / Security Officer: Wolfgang. Technically an {{extraterrestrial}} as he is descended from a family that have lived on the Moon colonies for generations.
** TheMedic: Joanna Glass.
** AcePilot: Akahiro "Hiro" Sato.
** TheEngineer: Paul, responsible for not only maintaining the ship but also IAN, the AI.
** TagalongKid: Maria.
* EncyclopediaExposita: the very first page of the book lists the Codicils, of seven laws that dictate the ethical and legal rights of clones.
* FinalDeath: One of the crew's first discoveries upon being reborn is that someone wiped the computer that controls the cloning vats. Unless they can reprogram it, and restore (or rebuild) the crew's DNA matrices, the mission has failed on grounds of "Crew died of natural causes (and were not respawned) less than a quarter of the way there."
* FiveTokenBand: Katrina and Maria are both of Hispanic descent. Hiro is of Japanese origin. Joanna Glass has a congenital defect that causes her to be born without legs, requiring either wheelchairs or prostheses. Wolfgang, the security officer and XO, is a native to Luna and has problems with Earth standard gravity. Only Paul, the chief engineer, defaults to being a white man by virtue of having nothing in particular said about him.
* FlashBack: the detailed history of each clone is unveiled as time passes, including some [[PointOfView Third-Person Omniscient]] escapades that characters ''shouldn't'' remember due to being hit with LaserGuidedAmnesia.
* FouRStarBadass: part of Katrina's BackStory is that she was the first clone ever to make the rank of General.
* GenerationShip: the ''Dormire''. Unusually for a ship of this type, however, it runs off clones instead of plain old sexual reproduction.
* HopeSpot: [[spoiler:the entire mission is one writ large. The ''Dormire'' offers a way out for people tired of living on an earth racked by ecological crisis and still recovering from the political instability caused by the existence of cloning. What none of the crew or colonists know is that Sallie Mignon handpicked them personally... Because they are her enemies. And FailureIsTheOnlyOption because the six crew members were selected specifically to get at each other's throats.]]
* KnightsTemplar: a firebrand priest on Luna, Gunter Orten, was the leader of the anti-clone sentiment, claiming that they were -- must be -- {{Soulless Shell}}s. When he recanted his statement, the clone riots started.
* LockedRoomMystery: or, in this case, locked spaceship.
* ManchurianAgent: it is possible to create these by hacking people's mind maps. The results are called ''yadokari'' (Japanese for "hermit crab"). At least two crew members have had this inflicted on them in their past.
* MemoryGambit: Maria is revealed to have done this to herself at one point by hacking her own mind map.
* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: A number of other things are uncovered during the ''Dormire'' crew's collective investigations into their deaths: [[spoiler:the nature of IAN, and the fact that Sallie Mignon was pursuing a vendetta against every single person on the ship]].
* MysteriousBenefactor: Sallie Mignon is the most powerful business person in the world. She personally financed the construction of the door mirror and hand-picked its six crew members. Unsurprisingly, she shows up frequently in flashbacks.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Because of the chaos caused by DNA and mindmap hacking, both disciplines have been 100% outlawed. Even the good things they can do -- curing people of mental disorders like schizophrenia or genetic disorders like multiple sclerosis -- are illegal.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: justified, given that clones have lifetimes to study anything they want. Even then, only one character has sunk time into more than one field.
* {{Phlebotinum}}: Another NecessaryWeasel for life aboard the ''Dormire''. "Lyfe" is a synthetic protein that can be used by biological 3D printers to create anything. It fuels not only the cloning tanks but the food printers which nourish the crew. Afterwards, any leftovers or by-products are broken back down into Lyfe. Convenient!
* SolarSail: the ''Dormire'' uses one.
* ThereCanBeOnlyOne: a fundamental rule of the Codicils. If multiple copies of the same clone are ever discovered to exist at the same time, the most recently spawned one is the only one that counts as a person. The older ones must be euthanized.
* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: This is to be expected on a ship with only six crew members, but has flashbacks unfold it is revealed that all of them were present, and indeed sometimes responsible, for some of the most important events in the story's future chronology.
* TortureAlwaysWorks: on Maria, which makes it tricky for her to avoid unethical work. Especially since, ''after'' the torture works, her assailants can just kill her without bothering to update her mindmap, a shortcut to LaserGuidedAmnesia if ever there was one. Her "forgotten" exploits include [[spoiler:the yadokari and hatchet jobs on Hiro, the brainwashing of Fr. Orten and the consigning of Minoru Takahashi to life as an AI.]]
* WeAreStrugglingTogether: the inevitable result of six clones waking up with no memories and discovering that one of them murdered the others at the cost of their own life.
Maria Arena wakes up in a cloning tank. She is the most junior crew member on the ''Dormire'', a GenerationShip carrying thousands of {{Human Popsicle}}s and a crew of six clones who will respawn over and over again over the course of the four-hundred-year journey, retaining their memories by virtue of BrainUploading. The problem is that Maria does not have any new memories past the launch of the ship 25 years ago. Neither do any of the other five crew members, all of whom are also freshly reborn. The presence of a former Maria -- stabbed to death but still warm -- suggest that things have gone horribly wrong. And, of course, the entire crew, Maria included, are convicted criminals, who took on the job to commute their sentences.
What follows is a LockedRoomMystery with a hefty side helping of CloningBlues, set against a backdrop of a 24th century Earth racked by wars, ecological disaster, and the ethics and ramifications of cloning and brain uploading... And, of course, the hacking thereof.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: the ship is run by an AI called IAN -- "integrated adaptive Network". IAN actually has functional control of the mission, as his authority supersedes that of the captain. Despite this, he doesn't do much except be a DeadpanSnarker... Until the PlotTwist, at least.
* AlmightyJanitor: Maria has the most menial job of the six, limited to cooking and housecleaning. As her HiddenDepths come into play, it becomes clear that [[spoiler:she's one of the most gifted hackers in history, a skill that proves incredibly important as time passes.]]
* AndTheAdventureContinues: the story ends when the murder mystery is resolved, which doesn't take the remaining 375 years of the voyage. (As a matter of fact, it only takes 5 days.)
* BecomeARealBoy: [[spoiler:What IAN ultimately wants. Also slightly subverted, in that he was one to begin with.]]
* BeenThereShapedHistory: [[spoilers:Hiro, and multiple clones created of him with yadokari and worse, is the reason for the restrictive laws forbidding any sort of mindmap hacking, even beneficial ones. Wolfgang is Fr. Orten, tortured for compliance and then hacked when he wouldn't break. Maria was responsible for both hacks, tortured for compliance. Joanna, then a senator, pushed the Codicils through.]]
* BrainInAJar: [[spoiler:IAN is revealed to actually be the mindmap of a genius named Minoru Takahashi who has been artificially transplanted into a computer network.]]
* BrainUploading: one of the {{Necessary Weasel}}s of the novel.
* CloningBlues: one of the novel's main themes.
* CommandRoster:
** TheCaptain: Katrina de la Cruz.
** NumberTwo / Security Officer: Wolfgang. Technically an {{extraterrestrial}} as he is descended from a family that have lived on the Moon colonies for generations.
** TheMedic: Joanna Glass.
** AcePilot: Akahiro "Hiro" Sato.
** TheEngineer: Paul, responsible for not only maintaining the ship but also IAN, the AI.
** TagalongKid: Maria.
* EncyclopediaExposita: the very first page of the book lists the Codicils, of seven laws that dictate the ethical and legal rights of clones.
* FinalDeath: One of the crew's first discoveries upon being reborn is that someone wiped the computer that controls the cloning vats. Unless they can reprogram it, and restore (or rebuild) the crew's DNA matrices, the mission has failed on grounds of "Crew died of natural causes (and were not respawned) less than a quarter of the way there."
* FiveTokenBand: Katrina and Maria are both of Hispanic descent. Hiro is of Japanese origin. Joanna Glass has a congenital defect that causes her to be born without legs, requiring either wheelchairs or prostheses. Wolfgang, the security officer and XO, is a native to Luna and has problems with Earth standard gravity. Only Paul, the chief engineer, defaults to being a white man by virtue of having nothing in particular said about him.
* FlashBack: the detailed history of each clone is unveiled as time passes, including some [[PointOfView Third-Person Omniscient]] escapades that characters ''shouldn't'' remember due to being hit with LaserGuidedAmnesia.
* FouRStarBadass: part of Katrina's BackStory is that she was the first clone ever to make the rank of General.
* GenerationShip: the ''Dormire''. Unusually for a ship of this type, however, it runs off clones instead of plain old sexual reproduction.
* HopeSpot: [[spoiler:the entire mission is one writ large. The ''Dormire'' offers a way out for people tired of living on an earth racked by ecological crisis and still recovering from the political instability caused by the existence of cloning. What none of the crew or colonists know is that Sallie Mignon handpicked them personally... Because they are her enemies. And FailureIsTheOnlyOption because the six crew members were selected specifically to get at each other's throats.]]
* KnightsTemplar: a firebrand priest on Luna, Gunter Orten, was the leader of the anti-clone sentiment, claiming that they were -- must be -- {{Soulless Shell}}s. When he recanted his statement, the clone riots started.
* LockedRoomMystery: or, in this case, locked spaceship.
* ManchurianAgent: it is possible to create these by hacking people's mind maps. The results are called ''yadokari'' (Japanese for "hermit crab"). At least two crew members have had this inflicted on them in their past.
* MemoryGambit: Maria is revealed to have done this to herself at one point by hacking her own mind map.
* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: A number of other things are uncovered during the ''Dormire'' crew's collective investigations into their deaths: [[spoiler:the nature of IAN, and the fact that Sallie Mignon was pursuing a vendetta against every single person on the ship]].
* MysteriousBenefactor: Sallie Mignon is the most powerful business person in the world. She personally financed the construction of the door mirror and hand-picked its six crew members. Unsurprisingly, she shows up frequently in flashbacks.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Because of the chaos caused by DNA and mindmap hacking, both disciplines have been 100% outlawed. Even the good things they can do -- curing people of mental disorders like schizophrenia or genetic disorders like multiple sclerosis -- are illegal.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: justified, given that clones have lifetimes to study anything they want. Even then, only one character has sunk time into more than one field.
* {{Phlebotinum}}: Another NecessaryWeasel for life aboard the ''Dormire''. "Lyfe" is a synthetic protein that can be used by biological 3D printers to create anything. It fuels not only the cloning tanks but the food printers which nourish the crew. Afterwards, any leftovers or by-products are broken back down into Lyfe. Convenient!
* SolarSail: the ''Dormire'' uses one.
* ThereCanBeOnlyOne: a fundamental rule of the Codicils. If multiple copies of the same clone are ever discovered to exist at the same time, the most recently spawned one is the only one that counts as a person. The older ones must be euthanized.
* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: This is to be expected on a ship with only six crew members, but has flashbacks unfold it is revealed that all of them were present, and indeed sometimes responsible, for some of the most important events in the story's future chronology.
* TortureAlwaysWorks: on Maria, which makes it tricky for her to avoid unethical work. Especially since, ''after'' the torture works, her assailants can just kill her without bothering to update her mindmap, a shortcut to LaserGuidedAmnesia if ever there was one. Her "forgotten" exploits include [[spoiler:the yadokari and hatchet jobs on Hiro, the brainwashing of Fr. Orten and the consigning of Minoru Takahashi to life as an AI.]]
* WeAreStrugglingTogether: the inevitable result of six clones waking up with no memories and discovering that one of them murdered the others at the cost of their own life.
