Each of the three of these categories of people play critical roles and Hugh mines them extraordinarily well. I especially love the juxtaposition of politics (the mayor and the sheriff), IT, and mechanical in the arc of the story. This doesn’t get answered in the first five books (which is what you get with the Omnibus edition) but the world does expand well beyond the silo. If very effectively grounds the reality of the world that its citizens inhabit, while leaving open a series of horizontal questions about what the entirety of the world actually is. We had friends staying over and I ended up on the couch, in a discussion, but sneaking pages when the conversation shifted away from me.Īs I like to write no-spoiler book reviews, I loved the metaphor of the silo. In the case of Wool, Howey stays one step ahead of you, feeding a little big of history a few pages before you need it, which gets you thinking down a new path for a while until just before you need a little more history, at which point he gives it to you.Īfter a hundred pages, I couldn’t put it down. After a while, you get caught up to the current time and start trying to figure out how we got there. I love post-apocalyptical Earth stories that just dump you into the middle, take off like a shot, and leave it to you to catch up as you slowly piece together what is going on. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. Wool - Omnibus Edition Paperback Januby Hugh Howey (Author) 37,601 ratings Book 1 of 3: Silo Series Editors' pick Best Science Fiction & Fantasy See all formats and editions Kindle 9.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover Paperback 3.89 9 Used from 3.89 1 New from 18.

Wool Omnibus by Hugh Howey