Half Way Home: The Final Solution
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*** Finalist in the Hugh Howey / Booktrack fanfic competition ***
They started with 500, 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.
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’The Final Solution’ is based on the universe described in the novel Half Way Home by Hugh Howey.
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