I also think that the size and structure of the silos are not firm (they seem to expand and shrink through the books as needed.īut the books are still engaging and there is a running theme of this book about paternalism and doing what is good for the whole, even when it is bad for many.įirst Shift – Legacy – Purchase Links: Paperback, Kindle EditionĮnter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. The time frame feels a bit off (the silos are built starting in 2049) but not too badly. The book lengths is longer (over 200 pages) and the story feels more filled out.
If anything this is an even more engaging story than the early books of Wool. The much anticipated prequel to bestseller Wool that takes us back to the beginnings of the silo. The main character tells both stories through flashback. Without giving up too much of the storyline of Wool, the setting is a post-apocalyptic world where everyone lives in underground silos waiting for it to be safe to return to the above ground world.įirst Shift tells both the story of how (and a little bit of why) the silos were built and the early years of living in the silos.
He is also the author of Beacon 23, Sand, the Molly Fyde saga, and many other books, and is the editor, with John Joseph Adams, of the Apocalypse Triptych series of anthologies.Summary: A Prequel to Wool, we find out how it all started or at least we start to find out.įirst Shift: Legacy (Wool #6) is the start to a prequel trilogy for five books of Wool by Hugh Howey. The first volume, Wool, has been translated in forty countries. HUGH HOWEY is the author of the New York Times and USA Today best-selling Silo trilogy ( Wool, Shift, and Dust). More and more layers of the dystopian world are unveiled, enticingly paving the way for the sequel. Howey creates a starkly believable and terrifying apocalypse. In Shift, the second volume of the New York Times best-selling Silo trilogy, Hugh Howey goes back to show the first days of the Silo, and the beginning of the end.īrilliantly written. and the ability to forget it ever happened. At almost the same moment in humanity s broad history, mankind discovered the means for bringing about its utter downfall. A simple pill, it had been discovered, could wipe out the memory of any traumatic event.
In the same year, a television program aired about the effects of propranolol on sufferers of extreme trauma. In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech outlined the hardware and software platforms that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate. Justin Cronin, best-selling author of The Passage
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