In a ruined and toxic landscape, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them. Sheriff Holston, who has unwaveringly upheld the silo’s rules for years, unexpectedly breaks the greatest taboo of all: He asks to go outside.
His fateful decision unleashes a drastic series of events. An unlikely candidate is appointed to replace him: Juliette, a mechanic with no training in law, whose special knack is fixing machines. Now Juliette is about to be entrusted with fixing her silo, and she will soon learn just how badly her world is broken. The silo is about to confront what its history has only hinted about and its inhabitants have never dared to whisper. Uprising.
Too long The basic story of this book is that civilization is living in silo(s) underground. The world has been destroyed by some sort of disaster. To go outside means to go to your death. A person who even speaks of going outside is sentenced to âcleaningâ, a kind of strange term that means you are sentenced to go outside. However, you have an obligation to clean the lenses that are posted outside that allow those inside the silo a view of the desolate world outside. For some unknown reason to those…
A truly great work of science fiction Good Science Fiction is when an author can create a whole world/universe that is both plausible within its own internal framework and also compelling and interesting to an outsider (the reader) who is drawn in and becomes invested in finding out the mysteries of this strange world and how its happenings relate to the world in which the reader lives.Great Science Fiction takes such a world and fills it with characters who have depth, feeling, and a connection to the reader so that…
Great indie book Self-publishing still gets a bad rap. Sometimes itâs justified: with a lower barrier to entry, platforms like Kindle Direct Publishing allow anyone to publish anything, even if itâs a stream-of-consciousness first draft riddled with typos. But there are plenty of brilliant, professional âindieâ authors out there. And Hugh Howey is one of them.Wool: Omnibus Edition is a collection of his first five novellas in the Wool series. The stories are set in a post-apocalyptic future in which…