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A bit about the books , Wool, Shift, Dust, the ultimate apocalypse series.


I'm not sure what motivated me to get the Wool series by Hugh Howey, because I stopped reading science fiction a long time ago. I read tons of science fiction as a kid and young adult, but I had gotten to the point there it felt like there was not a lot more for Sci-Fi to say. I am glad I gave Wool a chance. It was very entertaining and totally absorbing.

The story take place in a number of different time time periods and adding pieces of the whole picture of the future, but it concerns the construction of a huge underground silo where survivors of the nuclear/biological/chemical war are trying to surive the decimation of the Earth's surface after the final apocalpse war.

That's all I can really say other than it is a complex, detailed story, well thought out and with great characters in an amazingly conceived setting. I am so glad they did not try to squeeze this into a movie, and I very much doubt they can tell this story in one season of a TV series, so I hope this catches on enough to justify telling the whole story.

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Thx for the recommendation. . .gonna check the series out. Allow me to return the favor: you ever read Jack Vance? Simply amazing stuff. Start w/the Planet of Adventure series, or Demon Princes. . .or Araminta Station??? Ah, I dunno know. The guy's incredible, tho!

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Vance's "Dying Earth" series is incredible! Especially the books about Cugel the Clever. Another author who wrote much like Jack Vance is Michael Shea in his "Nifft the Lean" series.

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Agreed. What got me INTO Vance was the short story "Bagful of Dreams," which appeared in Carr's "Years Finest Fantasy" anthology, well before it was published as one of the chapters in "Cugel the Clever." Interestingly, the version in the anthology is (IMHO) much better/funnier than the latter one.

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I liked the books too, but this series is dissappointing

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It gets better in the second season ... much better, but still with issues.

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It does get better, but that burning of a whole episode of here wandering around in the dark just bugged me.

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So the books keep the mystery up to the end?

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There's 3 books, each centers around different eras of the silos, starting here, but then going back to when and why they were planned and built, and then after.

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More like 9 books in 3 parts. But apparently (and since I didn’t read them I can’t say for sure) the mystery of why and who controls is never explained.

If you read the books do they explain the difference in how the outside is seen? Why that difference exist and who creates/maintain it?

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Of course.

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