Recaps of books by Hugh Howey

Shift by Hugh Howey

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Title: Shift

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Series: Silo #2

- Wool (2013)
- Shift (2013)
- Dust (2013)

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In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platform that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate. In the same year, the CBS network re-aired a program about the effects of propranolol on sufferers of extreme trauma. A simple pill, it had been discovered, could wipe out the memory of any traumatic event. At almost the same moment in humanity’s broad history, mankind had discovered the means for bringing about its utter downfall. And the ability to forget it ever happened. This is the sequel to the New York Times bestselling WOOL series.
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Wool by Hugh Howey

The basics

Title: Wool

Author:

Series: Silo #1

- Wool (2013)
- Shift (2013)
- Dust (2013)

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In a ruined and hostile landscape, in a future few have been unlucky enough to survive, a community exists in a giant underground silo. Jules is part of this community, but she is different. She dares to hope. And as her walls start closing in, she must decide whether to fight, or to die.
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