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by Hugh Howey

Underground areasSubterranean CivilizationAmnesiaFictionScience fiction
3.8
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In a future less than 50 years away, the world is still as we know it. Time continues to tick by. The truth is that it is ticking away. A powerful few know what lies ahead. They are preparing for it. They are trying to protect us. They are setting us on a path from which we can never return. A path that will lead to destruction; a path that will take us below ground. The history of the silo is about to be written. Our future is about to begin.

Themes & subjects

Underground areasSubterranean CivilizationAmnesiaFictionScience fictionRoman

About the author

Hugh Howey
Hugh Howey

1975

Born in 1975, I spent the first eighteen years of my life getting through the gauntlet of primary education. While there, I dabbled in soccer, chess, and tried to write my first novel (several times). Out of school, I became fascinated with computers, repaired them for a brief stint, then moved to Charleston, SC and attended college. To save money, I purchased a small sailboat to live on, and nearly got myself killed bringing it down from Baltimore with a friend. After my junior year of college, possibly out of fear of the real world, I left my safe little harbor and sailed South. I hopped around the islands for a while, went through two hurricanes, and spent the last of my cruisin…

Author

Hugh Howey

Pages

576

Read time

≈ 14h

Editions

10

Language

English

Publisher

Penguin Random House

ISBN

9781804940839

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