Brilliance Audio on Compact Disc: Wool (CD-Audio)

from porch_reader

This is a very satisfying start to a 5-part series. Howey places us in the midst of a post-apocalyptic world and only gradually reveals the details, so I don't want to provide too much detail and spoil it. The revelation of the details is quite satisfying, but it was not until a twist at the end ...

from dlitwack

Book one was wonderful, with the kind of potential that could make it a classic (think a sci-fi O'Henry or the surprise ending of an Ender's Game). Had the rest of the five books maintained the same level of excellence, I would have given it five stars. Which is not to say the remaining 500 pages...

from tsunaminoai

Some sticking points, owing I think to the nature of how the novellas were released, but overall a great example of how to do character driven world building.

from jmones

I had to read it. As soon as I discovered that there existed a science-fiction novel, written by an unknown author - that would be Hugh Howey -, which everybody ways saying it was so cool. As soon as I knew that the publication of this short novel in electronic format had spawned a whole series o...

from AuntieClio

Wool is a post-apocalyptic dystopian book with a somewhat hopeful ending. The people of Wool live in a silo, designed to hold a population on 100 floors underground. For the people of Silo 18, this is all they've known. The somewhat totalitarian government they live under is also all they know, a...