Not only that, but they immediately notice that the bodies look much older than they should be and that’s when they realise that 25 years have gone past of which they have no memory of and clearly, clearly something went really, really wrong.īut that’s not all: the ship’s gravitational system is not working and they don’t seem to be on-course, the AI is not responding and one of the crew’s original body is not really dead: the captain is in a comma in the medical bay and it’s possible that she knows what happened but according to the laws, they now need to kill her because her clone has been awakened. One of them poisoned, a few of them were stabbed, one committed suicide.
The six crew members of the Dormire wake up one day to find themselves floating in a room, surrounded by the murdered corpses of themselves. These are the voyages of the generation ship Dormire… And IAN, the ship’s AI is to make sure they comply.
There is only one rule: they are not supposed to talk to each other about their past crimes so that they have a true chance of a new life. When they do, their criminal records will be deleted and they can start anew.
The journey is to last hundreds of years and each crew member will die and be reborn into a new, younger clone multiple times before they reach their destination. This is how six clones who committed crimes find themselves in a position where they can’t refuse a life-changing offer: to become the crew in a generation ship carrying thousands of sleeping humans toward another planet. But of course, humans being humans – even clones – laws are still broken. changing one’s basic personality – is considered unethical and strictly forbidden. There are laws of course, implemented after a long period of warring when genetic modifications were rampant: there can only be one clone of one person alive at any given time for example and hacking of a mindmap – i.e. High on the list of tech breakthroughs though is cloning: not only humans are now capable of creating clones, but they can also download their own mindmaps from one body to another, retaining their memories and personality with each new transfer – thus effectively achieving immortality. Technology has advanced to a point where colonising the moon and other planets is a reality. Thousands of years in the future, Earth is plagued by multiple disasters and corrupt governments. How did we get this book: ARC from the publisher Apparently Maria wasn’t the only one to die recently… Maria’s vat was in the front of six vats, each one holding the clone of a crew member of the starship Pituitary, each clone waiting for its previous incarnation to die so it could awaken. That was also new before, when she had awakened as a new clone, her first memory was of how she died: from illness once and from injury once… It was not common to awaken in a cloning vat streaked with drying blood.Īt least, Marie Shea iv had never experienced it.
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