![]() ![]() ![]() Donald’s sections read like a contemporary techno-thriller, while Troy’s read more like Wool-claustrophobic science fiction focused on what it’s like to live in perpetual waiting. The two stories come together (a bit predictably) partway through, but for the most part they’re distinct. The second is of a man named Troy who’s struggling to finish his first shift in Silo 1, the one silo to rule them all. congressman in 2054 who becomes the unwilling and unwitting architect of the silos. The first covers the life of a man named Donald, a freshman U.S. They’re longer, they’re more complex in terms of narrative structure, and they’re each more self-contained, so much so that it makes sense to review them separately first and then talk about how they work as a whole.įirst Shift tells us two stories. Unlike its predecessor, it only contains three of them. Like its predecessor, it’s a collection of novellas that Howey released serially. ![]() Shift Omnibus describes the events leading up to Wool. Go read.Īnd now that the only people in the room have all read Wool, we can get started. You should do this first because Wool is one of the best science fiction books to come out in recent memory, and second because it’s very much a big-reveal kind of book-one I can’t help but spoil by reviewing its follow-up. If you haven’t read Hugh Howey’s Wool, stop here and go do so immediately. ![]()
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