Hugh Howey Silo Series Order
Cori Riska
Coming from American writer Hugh Howey who initially self-published the series, Wool started with a short story in 2011. Then came four sequel novellas that were later published as a novel. Ultimately, this became a trilogy called the Silo trilogy.
Silo is a post-apocalyptic/Sci-Fi series that takes us to the future when the world outside has grown toxic, the view of it limited, talk of it forbidden. The remnants of humanity live underground in a single silo. But there are always those who hope, who dream. These are the dangerous people, the residents who infect others with their optimism. Their punishment is simple. They are given the very thing they want: They are allowed to go outside.
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Set in a post-apocalyptic world, the Silo series is a trilogy of novels by science fiction author Hugh Howey. The first book, Wool, started as a short story back in 2011 and quickly became a full-blown novel which spawned two more books: Shift and Dust.
It is definitely worth watching the Silo series. So far the Apple TV show is staying very close to the books, therefore the story is true and did not change much. Readers of the Silo book series will love the Silo TV Show.
One of the most interesting aspects of the series for me was its setting. You get a rundown of how the silo functions and how the people live there, which paints a clearer picture of the situation for the folks in the post-apocalyptic community.
The characters, on the other hand, are very well fleshed out. Their jobs, daily tasks, and physical descriptions are wonderfully detailed. These are an important factor of the novels since the people in the silos deal with such desperation and longing for change.
This is a world where all characters, major or supporting, must have well-defined personality traits in order to add to their believability and to understand their backgrounds and the circumstances that lead them to start questioning things about the forbidden outside world.
This, for me, was possibly the best part of the series. Thinking or even referring back to previous stories and previous characters to form connections in my mind and find the patterns had me mesmerized with the series the whole way through. This sort of narrative is complex, but Hugh Howey navigates it seamlessly, and I found myself weaving storylines together to make something longer, more epic.
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For the first time ever, The Silo Saga Omnibus brings together all of the work in Hugh Howey's ground-breaking, best-selling, acclaimed series, including the individual novels Wool, Shift, and Dust, as well as original essays by the author, and a bonus chapbook of short fiction, Silo Stories
The remnants of humanity live underground in a vast silo. In this subterranean world, rules matter. Rules keep people alive. And no rule is more strictly enforced than to never speak of going outside. The punishment is exile and death.
When the sheriff of the silo commits the ultimate sin, the most unlikely of heroes takes his place. Juliette, a mechanic from the down deep, who never met a machine she couldn't fix nor a rule she wouldn't break.
What happens when a world built on rules is handed over to someone who sees no need for them? And what happens when a world broken to its core comes up against someone who won't stop until things are set to right?
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