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Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1)

Hugh Howey

Start date: May 1, 2013

Finish date: May 31, 2013

Discussion: 2013 Reads

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Jan 19, 2013 Jenny (Reading Envy) rated it really liked it

Shelves: read2013, sword-and-laser, sci-fi-fantasy, post-apocalypse-and-dystopia

I was going to pace myself reading this, but the first story was so good that I just couldn't stop. There are five stories contained within the omnibus, with linked characters within the same post-apocalyptic underground silo. The people have been living in this silo for hundreds of years, it isn't safe to leave, and their greatest danger is an uprising.

Each section ends with a bit of a shocker, and it made me want to keep reading. I actually think the last one (view spoiler) ...more

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Jan 20, 2013 Tom Merritt rated it it was amazing

Stellar. It starts at breakkneck speed and pulled me in right away. I'm a sucker for post-apocalyptic, but this is also a rich version. Howey did a great job of revealing mysteries without revealing them all and keeping me interested in what was going to happen next. I liked that he didn't just keep teasing me. This isn't a suspense novel, it's roller coaster and anything can happen. ...more

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Dec 04, 2012 Otis Chandler rated it really liked it

Shelves: post-apocalyptic, fiction, sci-fi

A fun fast paced book that sucks you in right away and doesn't let go. The remnants of humanity live in a 150 story silo below the earth and can't leave as the outside is now toxic. This is a bit of an odd thing to have happened, but it gives us a nice palette to think about things.

Everything is rationed, including how many children you can have. People self-identify by their profession and where in the silo they live: farmers and mechanics in the lowers, IT in the mids, and professional class ...more

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Jun 05, 2012 Jlawrence rated it really liked it

Shelves: sword-and-laser

This first part of this five-part book is an outstanding, engrossing knock-out. Part two had to live in its part one's shadow and felt sluggish in comparison, doing necessary world-setting-filling-out but not having that electric, compelling build-up book one had. But that was just a temporary dip: soon enough in part three things start heating up and unravelling, and I was deeply engrossed again, all the way to the end.

Howey paints a future human community confined to an huge, hundred-level+ un ...more

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Apr 09, 2014 Oblomov rated it really liked it

An interesting dystopian future novel set in a silo holding one of the last remaining human populations, a location with many hidden secrets which if disclosed could lead to revolution and chaos, but which impose a hidden totalitarian control upon the citizens. The story focuses on what happens when some of these secrets are disclosed; will the silo fall
, will it return to its cloistered state or can a new more open society be formed capable of facing the future and the challenges that it will ...more

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