Synopses & Reviews
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 is the first novel in the bestselling Silo series that also includes Shift and Dust.
Review
"Howey's Wool is an epic feat of imagination. You will live in this world." Justin Cronin, bestselling author of The Passage
Review
"Secrets unfold with just the right pacing... If you're looking for a good post-apocalyptic read, you can't do much better than Wool."
Rick Riordan, bestselling author of the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series
Review
"With Wool Hugh Howey has created a new science fiction classic."
Ernest Cline, bestselling author of Ready Player One on Wool
Review
"Exilharating, intense, addictive."
S.J. Watson, bestselling author of Before I Go To Sleep
Review
"In Wool, Hugh Howey delivers the key elements of great science fiction: an authentic and detailed future-world; realistic, relatable characters to live in it; and a taut, thoughtful story. Howey's supple, muscular writing is the icing on the cake."
Jonathan Hayes, author of A Hard Death
Review
"Sci-fi's Underground Hit...appeal[s] to both men and women, and has attracted hard-core science fiction fans as well as general readers, much like The Hunger Games."
The Wall Street Journal
Synopsis
The thrilling eBook blockbuster that grew into a
New York Times bestseller.
What would you do
if the world outside was deadly,
and the air you breathed could kill?
And you lived in a place
where every birth required a death,
and the choices you made could save lives —
or destroy them.
This is Jules’s story.
This is the world of Wool.
About the Author
Hugh Howey is the author of Wool, a book he wrote while working as a bookseller, writing each morning and during every lunch break for nearly three years. Originally self-published in 2011, Wool has grown into a New York Times bestseller. He now lives in Jupiter, Florida, with his wife Amber and their dog Bella. For more information visit HughHowey.com/wool/.