A review by blaarrosir
Une colonie by Hugh Howey

5.0

Half Way Home was a sort of apocalyptic novel. In the far future worlds send out pods of embryos to claim and inhabit other worlds and bring profit for themselves. If the world they land on is habitable a colony is formed and the embryos are grown into adults. If the world isn't habitable the embryos are destroyed. Half Way Home is the story of one of the colonies of embryos that awake 15 years early after the colony tries to abort them then changes its mind. It follows the survivors of the abort and how their numbers divide between those who do whatever the colony's artificial intelligence wants them to and those that have minds of their own and question what they're being told. The characters are on the bland side, but the story itself is interesting. I enjoyed reading it.