
Six Wakes
by Mur Lafferty · first published 2017
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"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 first memory was of how she died. Maria's vat was in the front of six vats, each one holding the clone of a crew member of the starship Dormire, each clone waiting for its previous incarnation to die so it could awaken. And Maria wasn't the only one
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It's only similar to your premise, but I enjoyed Mur Lafferty's "Six Wakes", which is a scifi murder-mystery aboard a colony ship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Wakes
on ““The Martian” + Starship” ↗A few ideas: "The Expanse" series by Corey "Six Wakes" by Lafferty: a locked-room mystery with a twist "Altered Carbon" by Morgan "Chasm City" by Reynolds
on “What would a murder in space look like?” ↗This reminded me of the book Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty where it turns out the ship computer (AI) was actually a former human.
on “Computers that used to be human” ↗