Chronicle Worlds: Half Way Home

by Samuel Peralta, Hugh Howey, Ellen Campbell

In the distant future, alien planets are settled by A.I.-piloted starships. The journeys from Earth to these worlds could take hundreds of years - so the ships contain human embryos, preserved until the ship is in orbit, then thawed, raised to fully-grown, and trained by the A.I. with the skills needed to colonize their new world.

This is the seed for the universe in the bestselling novel Half Way Home , which followed one colonial foray on a new world. But this was only one world of a thousand worlds targeted by Earth's ships. That adventure, one of a thousand...

From acclaimed anthologist Samuel Peralta, Chronicle Half Way Home brings together fifteen of the most exciting new voices in speculative fiction to explore the universe created by NY Times and USA Today bestselling author Hugh Howey, to chronicle the astounding unexplored worlds of Half Way Home .

397 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 19, 2023

About the author

Samuel Peralta is a physicist and storyteller. He is most well-known in publishing as a poet, short story writer, and creator of the "Future Chronicles" anthologies, with over 20 bestselling titles to date.

Peralta's writing has been spotlighted in Best American Poetry, selected for Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy, and has won multiple awards, including from the UK Poetry Society and the Palanca Memorial Foundation.

He is a supporter and producer of independent films, one of which was nominated for a Golden Globe and another garnering an Emmy Award.

Peralta is the founder of the Lunar Codex, launching the works of 30,000 writers, artists, musicians, and filmmakers from over 155 countries, to the Moon.

Reviews

[Michael Lichtenstein · Rating 5 out of 5]

Chronicle worleds

Chronicle worlds are a great series of books and short stories, this one did not disappoint, It was interesting to read different takes on the same general idea

[Sylvie Parent]

Another good book in the serie

I've read all the future chronicles book and I love them all. The stories in half way home we're all good some were excellent!!! I can't wait for the next book in the serie...