Colony Collapse: A Half Way Home Expansion
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Colony Collapse is a short story based in the same universe as Hugh Howey's Half Way Home, and was written as an entry in the Hugh Howey Booktrack Fanfiction Contest.
Jessa is technically 24 years old, but she was born just two weeks ago, a genetically engineered colonist living on the galaxy's distant and dangerous frontier. Trained as a Logic Engineer, she's responsible for maintaining computers across the colony, but the latest software bug may be more than it seems... and her efforts to fix it will determine the future of her entire world.
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