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    Half Way Home
    Half Way Home
    Half Way Home
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    Half Way Home

    By Hugh Howey

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    "Brilliant pacing. Vivid characters. Realistic science. Hugh Howey's Half Way Home tackles the tribal instincts currently tearing the world apart, giving fresh insights into the psychology of group-think. It's Lord of the Flies among the stars!" — Peter Cawdron, author of Retrograde and Reentry

    From the New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of the Silo Series and the Sand Chronicles comes a story of teenage colonists marooned on a distant plane who must face inhospitable conditions, untrustworthy A.I., and growing tensions within their group in order to survive

    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 into their journey, an explosion on their vessel kills most of the homesteaders and destroys the majority of their supplies. Worse yet, the sixty that awaken and escape the flames are only half-taught and possess few useful survival skills.

    Naked and terrified, the teens stumble from their fiery baptism ill-prepared for the unfamiliar and harsh alien world around them. Though they attempt to work with the colony A.I. to build a home, dissension and misery are rampant, escalating into battles for dominance.

    Soon they find that their worst enemy isn’t the hostile environment, the A.I., or the blast that nearly killed them. Their greatest danger is each other.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 1, 2019
    ISBN9780358051817
    Half Way Home
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    Hugh Howey

    Hugh Howey is the New York Times and USA Today bestsell­ing author of the Silo Series: Wool, Shift, and Dust; Beacon 23; Sand; Half Way Home; and Machine Learning. His works have been translated into more than forty languages and have sold millions of copies world­wide. Adapted from his bestselling sci-fi trilogy, Silo is now streaming on Apple TV+ and Beacon 23 is streaming on MGM+. Howey lives in New York with his wife, Shay.

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    • 3/5
      Weird starting concept of countries sending colony ships to other star systems, with no idea how it could help them. Critical to the story, but hard to accept as a basis. Overall too simplistic, without much explanations and just hard to believe taht it would work out that way from a flora/fauna perspective on this planet and as a "society" for the colonists. Still somewhat enjoyable since it was fairly short.
    • 4/5
      Half Way Home is the story about our world trying to reach out and claim planets for their resources and the price someone is willing to pay to make money. When fifteen year old Porter is awakened 15 years earlier than he should have he realizes that their being saved was a decision the AI made after it discovered something on the planet that at first was deemed nonviable. With only a fraction of the 500 member crew surviving it's up to him and his group of companions to decide if fate will destroy them all of if they have the strength to create their own future on this planet. I thought that this was a great story, it was a quick read, the characters were well developed and the story line unique. The book was originally published in 2010 so I am guessing there won't be a follow up though the story did end with what could be a great series. It was a good story on it's own as well. A good choice for readers of Andy Weir.
    • 4/5
      This is a very quick read and for me, it kind of feels like a first draft. I wish Hugh had been bolder with his main character. He had an opportunity there and squandered it. It definitely feels like a NaNo project. It's not bad, it's just not all that it should have been.
    • 5/5
      As someone who has enjoyed quite a number of Hugh Howey books when I saw this one I snapped it up immediately, and I can certainly say I am pleased I did.I really enjoyed the imaginative world he paints here, the sense of adventure when the colonists break free and the idea of an all powerful AI making ruthless decisions that benefit only itself.The writing was well balanced and kept the pages flying by, the ending was pretty reasonable although I would love to see a sequel, or even two following in the path of the colony or the response from the founders/AI.Enjoyable - would read again.
    • 4/5
      I've been listening to this on my phone whenever I'm working upstairs so it took awhile to finish listening to it. I loved Hugh Howey's Wool so I figured I would like Half Way Home and I did. It is set in a future with clones and AI and space exploration. It deals with an alien planet that the young clones need to learn to survive on. Why are they there and why were most of them aborted?There's a lot going on and this makes the story interesting to listen to.
    • 5/5
      I think that many people are attributing the less "manly" behavior of the main character to him being homosexual. I took it as more that he's just a sensitive 15 year old kid. In any case, I loved this book and was really sad when it was over, I don't understand at all why so many people didn't like it.
    • 1/5
      Being a big fan of the Howey's "Wool" and "Silo" series, I bought this book expecting more of the well thought-out story lines with intriguing characters. I was sorely disappointed.This is a newspaper opinion piece wrapped in 300 plus pages of poorly executed fiction. One of the guiding principles of any work of fiction is you should never "hear" the author preaching about anything. The point is to tell a story and, one would hope, to do it well. Howey failed on both scores.

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