Wool (Silo I), by Hugh Howey

A Thing I’ve Read 13/25: Wool (Silo I), by Hugh Howey

The cover of Wool, by Hugh Howey. In the fore-to-midground a barren, rocky landscape is seen, with hills rising to both sides of the cover. In the middle, and in some distance, stands a human figure with its back to the reader. A bright light shines into the valley. The further up one looks the more the view is overlaid with CRT matrix, its red-green-blue slits clearly visible on the upper side. In the lower part, laid over the rocky terrain, is the name of the book written, with a similar effect: bright on the bottom, a CRT-matrix clearly visible on the top of the letters. The author's name is written in bright letters below.

The world is a giant underground silo. The outside is toxic. The order of society must be preserved at all costs, lest humanities last outpost crumbles to dust. Of course nothing goes ever wrong.
The story, or maybe rather “the collection of novellas”, follows the events of said Silo, beginning with the old sheriff volunteering to go outside to clean the cameras, and all that unravels from it.

I have devoured this book, and I highly recommend it for anyone up for some… rather dark apocalyptic fiction.

I was also not at all surprised to learn that this was one of the inspirations for Tales: Inside.

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