Silo
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Silo
What if it’s all a lie? And what if it isn’t?!
Discover a world where the mere thought of wanting to go outside is a deadly crime. A world reduced to dozens of floors of steel and concrete and buried miles underground. In the giant Silo, an inexorable order reigns. People work according to castes, are subject to strict fertility controls and must never have doubts. And if they do? They are sent up to the surface into a toxic wasteland, where instant death awaits them before the eyes of the others. But what if everything people see on the screens is just a gigantic lie, repeated a thousand times? What if the most toxic truth is not hidden outside, but right among them, protected by those who promised them survival? Juliette Nichols also has her doubts. As a renowned mechanic in the deepest levels of the Silo, she is in charge of ensuring the humming generators provide air for the last 10,000 survivors on a devastated Earth. But when a series of mysterious deaths and vile betrayals forces her to rise to the position of sheriff, she discovers a terrifying truth.
When the author published a shorter story for e-book readers in 2011, he had no idea that he had laid the foundation stone for one of the most influential post-apocalyptic series of the new millennium. Silo offers an exceptionally claustrophobic, disturbing, and uncomfortably believable plunge into the darkness of a totalitarian society. This phenomenal bestseller about manipulation and power in a labyrinth full of secrets was adapted into a TV series by Apple TV+ in 2023, starring Rebecca Ferguson, Common, Tim Robbins and other acting stars.
Reviews for the book:
One of the great pleasures of dystopian fiction is that its readers have a head start on its characters: we know what the world once looked like, and we watch the characters struggle to discover the truth. Howey offers more than enough of this. It's no wonder the book has gained such a quick following.
- The Guardian
This is the book I’ll be shoving at all my friends, saying: You have to read this. It's just that amazing.
- Fantasyliterature.com
Hugh Howey
(b. 1975) An American writer famous for being a commercially successful author who sold film rights with nothing more than a laptop. In his youth, alongside school, he was also into computers, and to save on rent at university, he bought a houseboat, which eventually led to him becoming a sea captain. He met his wife on his travels, who then took the wind out of his sails. Instead of wandering the world, he began to wander his own imagination and write stories about the daring Molly Fyde, for whom in the twenty-fifth century there is nothing she can't do, or at least won't try. From 2009, he began publishing his stories electronically via Kindle Direct Publishing directly on Amazon. More texts soon followed, until in 2011 he published the introductory short story from a post-apocalyptic world where humanity survives in vast underground shelters. He then set his first book, Wool (2012), and the following titles, Shift (2013) and Dust (2013), in the same environment. Director Ridley Scott showed interest in adapting the story into a film, but it eventually became a successful series adaptation produced by Apple TV+. His other works include The Sand Chronicles duology, which consists of the titles Sand (2014) and Across the Sand (2022), the novels I, Zombie (2012), The Shell Collector (2014), and the book Beacon 23 (2015), also known for the TV series of the same name starring Lena Headey in one of the main roles.
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