Meanwhile, in between chapters about the young congressman, a man name Troy is woken from cryonic sleep and set to work in Silo 1. Donald and his wife Helen end up in separate silos, right next to each other. As a young girl sings the National Anthem, the bombs fall and people are ushered into the silos. This timeline ends as the National Convention takes place at the new facility - a different state is camped out over each silo. The years go by the facility is built without Donald every realizing its true purpose or replication fifty times over at the same large site outside of Atlanta. The only people he speaks to about his work are his best friend and the Senator's daughter, Anna, who also happens to be Donald's ex-girlfriend. He is kept highly isolated from anyone else working on the project under the premise of confidentiality. Donald, whose education was in architecture, is asked to design an underground silo for the workers of a new facility meant to house used nuclear cores. His relationship with older, well-respected Senator Thurman opens the door to join a top-secret project. The first shift finds Donald at the start of his first term in Washington. Each shift bounces between two story lines. Howey breaks his story into three 'shifts,' hence the book title. The book follows Donald, a young US congressman decades from our current era. At the start, this requires a bit of dedication to follow and discern what is happening and how it fits into the larger plot of the series.

No regrets, though it was totally worth it. I felt a little badly since I am currently reading a half dozen books and I completely disregarded all others until I finished Shift. When I finally found a copy a few weeks ago, I blazed through it just as quickly as I did its predecessor. Ever since I put Wool down, I have been dying to get my hands on Shift, the prequel and second book in the Silo series. That post encapsulates much of my feelings on Hugh Howey as an author.

Look, I'll even give you the link again to make it easy for you - click here to read it.Īre you done? Did you read it? Good. If you have not read my post about that book, I strongly encourage you to go back and do so. It is great stuff.Earlier this summer, I read Hugh Howey's Wool.

Not only that, but by the time of the events of Wool, humanity has been down there for hundreds of years. These questions are all heretical within the society of the silo, and the rules are ruthlessly enforced by a small leadership class with varying degrees of political legitimacy. Juliette, the protagonist, (reportedly to be played by Rebecca Ferguson in the television series) questions why some people are banished from the silo, what really happens to them when they are forced outside, and why they are all in the silo in the first place. Related: These are the top military movies to watch for in 2023 The main dramatic developments then develop from the breakdown of that society. Howey uses the milieu of humanity forced into a silo in a post-apocalyptic dystopia to explore how it is that humans organize themselves into a functioning society. If it sounds like a book about politics and the human condition, it absolutely is. Howey explores all of these questions in the first book, as well as what happens when free-thinking Juliette (the heroine of Wool) takes it upon herself to question just about everything underpinning the silo’s socio-political framework.

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