But there are strict population controls and courtship rules, and there is one absolute taboo: never speak about the outside, or whatever happened in the unknown past, never speculate about it, and never even hint that you might want to leave the Silo.Īnyone who breathes a word of such sedition is cast out, and sentenced to Cleaning. It's not quite a dystopia nobody starves, people can change careers, there are even elections for people in authority. Now, the residents of the Silo live underground in an orderly, heavily policed society. Some unspecified cataclysm ended the old world and killed everyone else on Earth, leaving the outside world uninhabitable. Wool takes place in a Silo, which is the only world its inhabitants have ever known. The Wool Omnibus consists of Books 1-5 there are now a total of 9 books plus assorted short stories in the series. However, with everyone talking about Wool, I was curious, so I checked out the Omnibus edition.
Not OMG terrible bad, but a typical self-published book: stilted, poorly edited, amateurish. I first became aware of Howey when I tried the first book in his Molly Fyde series. Hugh Howey's Wool series has gathered attention mostly because Howey is one of those rare self-publishing success stories who's joined Amanda Hocking in self-publishing lore: he self-published his first few books, they became massively popular, then he signed a print publishing deal with Simon & Schuster while keeping digital rights for himself, and now he's got a movie deal. They are given the very thing they profess to want: They are allowed outside. These are the dangerous people, the residents who infect others with their optimism. But there are always those who hope, who dream.
The world outside has grown unkind, the view of it limited, talk of it forbidden. This is the story of mankind clawing for survival, of mankind on the edge.
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