Wool by Hugh Howey

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Wool is a postapocalyptic thriller where the remaining few thousand humans are living in a sealed underground world. This world consists of a giant silo, created for protection from the hostile environment outside. Digital sensors transmit blurry images of the bleak landscape beyond, as a reminder of how deadly life outside would be. 

Society is safe inside the silo, but rigidly controlled. Those who don’t comply with society’s rules for survival are forced outside in the toxic air to clean the grime off the digital sensors. But some citizens wonder if their leaders are lying to them about the outside world, and how life in the silo really came about.

Hugh Howey originally self-published ‘Wool’ on Amazon as a short story, and was inundated with requests from readers for sequels. Five instalments were then combined in a single volume, and ‘Wool’ shot up the Amazon sci-fi charts and was released in print. The latest in the Silo Trilogy ‘Shift’ is already in print, and ‘Dust’ is due in October.