Wool
- Published
- 1 January 2011
- Pages
- 544
- ISBN-13
- 9781594136757
- Type
- novel
About this book
Wool began as a self-published novella in 2011 before reader demand grew it into the complete 544-page novel now sold as the trilogy's opener, following a reluctant new sheriff after his predecessor's fatal request to go outside.
Key facts about Wool
Hugh Howey wrote Wool, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2011. The book has 544 pages.
We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781594136757 to find the main one.
Wool is book 1 of 3 in the Silo series. The series has 3 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
Additionally, Hugh Howey writes The Molly Fyde Saga as a separate series. Those series sit on our science fiction and post-apocalyptic science fiction shelves. Meanwhile, Across the Sand is the latest published Hugh Howey book on file, from 2022.
About Hugh Howey
Hugh Howey is an American author best known for the Silo series, beginning with the self-published novella Wool in 2011, which follows the residents of a massive underground silo generations after some unspecified catastrophe made the surface world uninhabitable -- and the dangerous consequences of anyone questioning the silo's strict rules about what lies outside. See every Hugh Howey book in order.
Its place in Silo
Wool is book 1 in the Silo series. It is followed by Shift. See the full Silo reading order.
Thousands of people live in a massive underground silo, generations removed from whatever destroyed the world above. The air outside is toxic, everyone knows it, and the one rule no one breaks is that you never ask to go outside — because the silo always grants that wish, and no one who leaves the airlock ever comes back. When the sheriff himself asks to go out, his death sets off a chain of events that pulls a reluctant new sheriff, an engineer, and a shadow government of silo administrators into a fight over…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781476735115
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780099580485
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780063378308