Silo · Book 1

Wool

by Hugh Howey

Published
1 January 2011
Pages
544
ISBN-13
9781594136757
Type
novel

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Cover of Wool

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.

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…

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