Well written, info dumpy preparations, debates, concepts, etc. Though his effects are occasionally rough-hewn, Howey is at the same time a sophisticated teller of stories.Showing how it came to a devastating catastrophe in detailed retrospectives, while mixing it up with the current storyline, was hardly ever such a fun and enjoyment to read. The Shift and Dust subseries are prequels. The first season of the Television series Silo ( 2023 10 episodes) focuses primarily on this initial sequence. The Silo seems to be self-maintaining, a stasis made problematical by the seemingly enforced Amnesia of its inhabitants about the deep past, with enforced fears about the unseen desolation on the surface of the planet conveying a dramatic irony out of the SF Megatext. The first sequence in this overseries, the Wool tales, are set in a deep Underground Keep known as the 'Silo', a hundred stories deep (at first reckoning), and the only refuge for humanity in the Ruined Earth.

Howey came to prominence, however, with the first standalone stories in a sequence whose various subseries are now presented as part of the Silo overseries.

A young female space cadet finds herself travelling the interstellar star ways with a growing cast of companions, encountering and surmounting crises typical of Space Opera, the whole slightly intensified by some Military SF trappings. (1975- ) US author who has become very well known for his successful use of a self-publishing model to create a market for his fiction, though his first work – the Bern Saga sequence beginning with Molly Fyde and the Parsona Rescue ( 2009) – was released traditionally, fittingly as regards its deliberately traditional Young Adult content.

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