For generations, the people of the silo have lived, worked and died beneath the ground and the current inhabitants have never known another existence. Inside the silo, tech teams constantly monitor the earth’s environment as they have for hundreds of years. Death would be in a matter of minutes, even with protective gear. Up top, the world is a wasteland with toxic air and scorched earth. In Wool, what’s left of humankind lives in an underground silo, drilling over one hundred monstrous floors into the earth’s crust. Hugh’s extreme success as a self-published author is what drew me to investigate, aside from being thoroughly addicted to post-apocalyptic and science-fiction tales of survival. That’s when Simon & Schuster took notice and offered Howey a contract. Although he was self-published, the Wool Omnibus (original title) raced up the charts and landed on the New York Times Best Sellers list. After the first five were published, he compiled them together and released the omnibus edition as a stand-alone novel. When Howey released the first short book, it rapidly traveled via word of mouth and became instantly popular with science-fiction junkies. Wool is a collection of five novellas which were originally self-published and individually released on Amazon.
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