· Only fifty or so survived. We woke up fifteen years too early, we had only half our training, and they expected us to not only survive they expected us . · Half Way Home. WE WOKE IN FIRE. Five hundred colonists have been sent across the stars to settle an alien planet. Vat-grown in a dream-like state, they are educated through simulations by an artificial intelligence and should awaken at thirty years old, fully-trained, and ready to tame the new world. But fifteen years in, an explosion on their vessel kills most of the homesteaders and destroys Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins. · By Hugh Howey. Publisher: John Joseph Adams | Mariner Books | HMH Books. Release date: October 1, Half Way Home is only halfway there. Hugh Howey writes a .
Half Way Home ebook By Hugh Howey. Read a Sample. Sign up to save your library. With an OverDrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for at-a-glance information about availability. Find out more about OverDrive accounts. Save Not today. Format. ebook. Author. Hugh Howey. Publisher. HMH Books. Release. 01 October In this story, Hugh Howey fuses the best of young adult fantasy with the piercing social commentary of speculative fiction. Half Way Home was originally self-published in , and re-published by. ― Hugh Howey, quote from Half Way Home "Between the last glimmer of morning stars above, and the size of the leaves beneath me, the mountains provided one last blow to my ego—my sense of belonging to this universe—and made all else seem insignificant by comparison.
Half Way Home. WE WOKE IN FIRE Five hundred colonists have been sent across the stars to settle an alien planet. Vat-grown in a dream-like state, they are educated through simulations by an artificial intelligence and should awaken at thirty years old, fully-trained, and ready to tame the new world. Half of one, anyway. Half-made, half-trained, half-dead. And this is the story of my home. • 0 • What Should Have Been I was a blastocyst, once. A mere jumble of cells clinging to one another. A fertilized egg. Of course, we were all in just such a state at some point in our lives, but I excelled at it in a way you didn’t. Half Way Home is the first stand-alone novel by American author, Hugh Howey. While it nourishes, nurtures and teaches its five hundred charges from blastocyst to adult maturity, the Colony ship’s Artificial Intelligence is constantly assessing the conditions on the planet for viability of the settlement.
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