Shift - Omnibus Edition Author: Visit Amazon's Hugh Howey Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1481983555 | Format: PDF
Shift - Omnibus Edition Description
About the Author
Hugh Howey wrote Wool while working as a bookseller, writing each morning and during every lunch break for nearly three years. Originally self-published in 2011, Wool has grown into a New York Times blockbuster. He now lives in Jupiter, Florida, with his wife, Amber, and their dog, Bella.
--This text refers to the
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- Series: Silo Saga
- Paperback: 608 pages
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (January 28, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1481983555
- ISBN-13: 978-1481983556
- Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Shift Omnibus consists of 3 novellas that comprise a prequel off sorts to Wool. It's not entirely a prequel because the story overlaps Wool and essentially ends at the same place that Wool does. Shift has three primary story arcs: (1) A 40-ish man Donald, who is involved in the design and building of the silos and who (through the miracle of cryogenics) hangs around in the story for a few hundred years, (2) a boy name Mission Jones, who is central to the big uprising in silo 18 in the generations before the events of Wool, and (3) Solo, the guy in Wool who lives 30+ years alone in silo 17 after its collapse--the one who Jules meets. In Wool, we learned that we built the silos and then deliberately destroyed the entire world. One of the main purposes of this prequel is to explain why we did this. The "we" in this case ends up being a small cabal of persons. The Donald story arc explains the building of the silos and tries to explain why any rational person would destroy the world and then hide a remnant of people in silos. This story arc also explains what the ultimate purpose or plan is regarding the silos. Of these three story arcs, only the Mission Jones story approaches the same magic as Wool. Overall the characters and story lines in Shift are decidedly less engaging and compelling than in Wool. The big explanation for the destruction of the world is not entirely convincing and plausible, and the big reveal at the end about the true purpose of the silos really sounded ridiculous and nonsensical, despite the author's earnest efforts to make it all add up. And then there's the Solo storyline. If a person lived alone for 30+ years with not much to do, you'd think there wouldn't be much of a good story to tell...and there's not. The Solo story I found deadly dull.
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