She got the idea in the midst of her research for Six Wakes. Now, Lafferty’s back with another spacefaring murder mystery: Station Eternity, the first novel in a planned trilogy. Six Wakes, which centers on a spaceship full of clones who wake up to find that someone has killed their previous incarnations, garnered nominations for the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. “I fell in love with her books and really tried to learn as much as I could from the way she structures things,” Lafferty tells Bustle. But after selling Six Wakes on proposal, Lafferty had to confront the hard truth: She’d offered to write a murder mystery, despite knowing nothing about the genre.
Her previous works had all been sci-fi - stories about a human tapped to write travel guides for monsters, a pair of dead friends on a quest to find their perfect afterlife, or a generation of less-talented superheroes pulled into a giant battle.
When Mur Lafferty realized she’d signed up to write a mystery, she was terrified.
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