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    The Final Solution: Colony Collapse, #1
    The Final Solution: Colony Collapse, #1
    The Final Solution: Colony Collapse, #1
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    The Final Solution: Colony Collapse, #1

    By Roz Marshall

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    There's a solution. But it's not the one they anticipated.

    They started with five hundred, but their numbers are decreasing every day. Exponentially. 

     

    Science Officer Brent and Medical Officer Kelley are tasked with discovering who — or what — is picking off colonists from their expeditionary settlement on the seeming Eden of this alien planet.

     

    But science and logic are no match for their rapacious nemesis, as they race to find a solution before their colony becomes unviable and the unthinkable becomes reality.

     

    :: The Final Solution was a prizewinner in the Hugh Howey / Booktrack short story competition, and is set in a new colony in the Half Way Home universe, with Hugh's kind permission.

     

    Parts 2 and 3 of the trilogy, The Final Countdown and The Final Destination are coming soon.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAye Alba Publishing
    Release dateMay 26, 2023
    ISBN9798215772140
    The Final Solution: Colony Collapse, #1

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      Book preview

      The Final Solution - Roz Marshall

      The Final Solution

      THE FINAL SOLUTION

      BASED ON HUGH HOWEY'S HALF WAY HOME UNIVERSE

      COLONY COLLAPSE

      BOOK 1

      ROZ MARSHALL

      Eden Press

      Copyright © 2014 Roz Marshall

      All rights reserved.

      This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. You must not circulate this book in any format.

      The characters, places and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, or to actual events or locales is entirely coincidental.

      This book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only.

      Created in the United Kingdom.

      First published 2014

      This edition 2023

      Cover by Go On Write

      Find out more about the author and upcoming books online at www.rozmarshall.co.uk/books

      Get a FREE short story—sign up for my newsletter: rozmarshall.co.uk/newsletter/

      CONTENTS

      About this story

      Foreword

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      A Note from the Author

      An extract from Nobody’s Hero

      About the Author

      Also by Roz Marshall

      Acknowledgments

      ABOUT THIS STORY

      There’s a solution. But it’s not the one they anticipated.

      They started with five hundred, but their numbers are decreasing every day. Exponentially.

      Science Officer Brent and Medical Officer Kelley are tasked with discovering who—or what—is picking off colonists from their expeditionary settlement on the seeming Eden of this alien planet.

      But science and logic are no match for their rapacious nemesis, as they race to find a solution before their colony becomes unviable and the unthinkable becomes reality.

      FOREWORD

      This story is set in Hugh Howey’s Half Way Home universe, telling the story of another colony on a different planet. I would like to

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