Crazy-Prepared: Some characters have questions as to how the Silo builders were seemingly the only people able to predict the Polluted Wasteland that the world would become far enough ahead to plan for it so thoroughly.

Be Careful What You Wish For: Want to leave the stifling confines of the Silo? Well, if you insist.

The fact that the Silo-builders systematically planned and carried it out entirely on purpose, on the other hand.

Awful Truth: It's no surprise that the apocalypse was mankind's fault.

Awesomeness by Analysis: Juliette has some minor instances, especially since she has to do a lot of little fiddly things with tools or navigation while stark blind on multiple occasions.

Artifact Title: Wool has a lot more to do with the first novella than any of the following ones.

Finding out the cause of it all is a minor plot point throughout the story.

After the End: A basic part of the setting.

'You will have to be cruel to your children so as not to lose them.'

Abusive Parents: Implied through Lukas's response to a poorly chosen metaphor on Bernard's part.

There are taboo topics, and so much as mentioning them is grounds to be sent to 'cleaning', the fatal job of removing the grime and soot that coat the lenses of the external cameras, the silo's only link to the outside world.īut some people don't care about taboos, they want the truth, and their actions end up setting in motion events that could well destroy the entire city.Īn Apple TV adaptation, entitled Silo, is set to release on May 5, 2023. The only thing it doesn't truly have is freedom. In many ways the Silo is like a normal city: It has mechanics, a sheriff and deputies, a mayor, farmers, clerks, and even IT staff. For countless generations everyone has lived here, being born, growing up reading some of the rare children's books that survived the last uprising, applying for permission to take a lover, winning the lottery to have a child, and then dying, having one's remains turned into fertilizer for the essential crops.

A massive, 146-floor building dug into the earth. What, exactly, has been lost to the mists of time and the ravages of rebellion, but all one has to do is look at the screens, where images from the cameras outside are projected, and see the brown, dead landscape covered by endless black clouds to know that going outside would be suicide. Originally a single short story, the surprisingly large popular reaction led to its continuation. Wool is a series of self-published post-apocalyptic novellas written by Hugh Howey.

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