Habitat

By Simon Roy

All his life, Hank Cho wanted to join the ranks of the Habsec the rulers of the orbital habitat his people call home. But when he finds a powerful, forbidden weapon from the deep past, a single moment of violence sets his life and the brutal society of the habitat into upheaval. Hunted by the cannibalistic Habsec and sheltered by former enemies, Cho finds himself caught within a civil war that threatens to destroy his world. A new barbarian sci-fi adventure by SIMON ROY (PROPHET, JAN 'S ATOMIC HEART, Tiger Lung), originally serialized in ISLAND MAGAZINE.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Image Comics, Inc.
• Release date: Oct 26, 2016
• ISBN: 9781534301450

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Reviews for Habitat

[andibook-1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A quick and dirty sci-fi dystopia on some kind of multi-generational space ship. The young new Habsec (habitat security) officer isn’t so much a main character as a thread we follow from one warring department sect to another.The world building is fantastic, especially the incorporation of 3D printing. I’m a sucker for techy dystopias where people have forgotten how technology works. I really appreciate the language, too: subtle slang, natural-sounding distortions of current tech terms, and (my pet peeve) not too many Meaningfully Capitalized Nouns.My only two complaints are that the factions were hard to differentiate, making the in media res a bit difficult; and that it only barely has any resolution. Is this a series?

[villemezbrown · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

A young punk finds a way to bring a gun to a knife fight in this sci-fi dystopia. The inhabitants of a mammoth malfunctioning spaceship that has been adrift for decades have devolved into warring tribes, with some resorting to cannibalism. There is much running around and fighting but little point to it all, especially since the book is too short to flesh out any of its ideas or characters. I closed the cover thinking only, "Okay, sure, so?"