Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1) (Wool, #1-5) by Hugh Howey Series: Silo Saga #1
Published by Simon & Schuster on March 12th 2013
Genres: Science Fiction
Pages: 509
Format: eBook, Kindle Book
In a ruined and toxic landscape, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them. Sheriff Holston, who has unwaveringly upheld the silo's rules for years, unexpectedly breaks the greatest taboo of all: He asks to go outside.
His fateful decision unleashes a drastic series of events. An unlikely candidate is appointed to replace him: Juliette, a mechanic with no training in law, whose special knack is fixing machines. Now Juliette is about to be entrusted with fixing her silo, and she will soon learn just how badly her world is broken. The silo is about to confront what its history has only hinted about and its inhabitants have never dared to whisper. Uprising.
Wool Omnibus is my first read Hugh Howey. It’s the first book in the Silo Saga. I kept hearing about this book so I was very intrigued to read it. Once I started reading it I could relate to our daily lives. I kept thinking all the way through the book that the silos were our real life taboos. It’s the group thinking that holds our hands tight. It’s the beliefs forced on us through ages. And as in our daily lives too, those challenging the fixed beliefs are the ones criticized and cursed by the society. Yet they are the ones giving us extended opportunities and laying the ground for extraordinary innovations.
In Wool Omnibus, the world as we know it has disappeared. What is left is a very toxic landscape. The only safe place for humans is inside a huge underground Silo. New generations are born that have never seen a world other than the Silo. They are bound to the believes imposed on them by the older generations. There is no world outside. It’s only death. They all live in this Silo and abide by the rules governing the community there. Anyone who questions those beliefs is punished and expelled out of the Silo. The rest in the Silo watch him through the Silos windows on the uppermost floor as he perishes outside in the toxic landscape.However, when it’s Juliette’s turn to be expelled after a conspiracy, things are not as she always believed. There is more to it.
I loved how consistent the book was .. The vivid characters and the mind challenging thoughts. It’s a great work that keeps you thinking.
About Hugh Howey
Hugh Howey is the author of the award-winning Molly Fyde saga and the New York Times and USA Today bestselling WOOL series. The WOOL OMNIBUS won Kindle Book Review’s 2012 Indie Book of the Year Award — it has been as high as #1 on Amazon — and 40 countries have picked up the work for translation. Ridley Scott and Steve Zaillian are adapting the work for 20th Century Fox.