#silo trilogy

[2shadowsdeep]

[pup-b]

All the marketing for Hugh Howey's Silo series calls it 'the next hunger games' and really props up the release of the apple tv series, and I aboided it for a Good chunk of time cause of that. Thought it was a late entry into the dystopian fiction boom and didn't think much else.

I only finally picked it up cause a video essay on Bunkers discussed it some and I finally saw enough of the story's Soul to spark an interest. Now I'm on the final book of the trilogy and I have Never been as gripped by a story. Its so Grounded in humanity, dealing in love and war and death and hope in the face of the end of everything. How tge story effortlessly passes the torch between characters as they live and die and make connections is So compelling, and really elevates the stakes of the relationships. There is no real main character who fixes everything, there is only a long line of people trying their best to do what they think is right. Its a way to story craft I've never seen any other author pull off, and has definitely got me interested in Hugh Howey's other works.

Anyways, this is all to say, if you felt similarily to me about the Silo trilogy. Please give it a shot. Its one of the most fantastic peices of literature I've ever had the pleasure of reading.

[pluckywallflower]

"Sleep was a vehicle for passing the time, for avoiding the present. It was a trolley for the depressed, the impatient, and the dying. Donald was all three."

Dust, by Hugh Howey

[partylikemajima]

I convinced my brother that the books are better than the Silo tv series. Me, who really loved season 1 and couldn't wait for the next, started reading the books and fell in love with how it was done there, convinved him to read it. I showed him many parts of how it is different in the books, but what solidified it for him to read them was how Solo's introduction is in the books compared to the show. In the show he says his name is "Solo", he's behind a huge closed door and is playing music? Talks normally to her? In the books, the first book 'Wool', its 10000% better, Juliette noticing her things were missing, stood still hearing footsteps and then running at the sound of someone running from her, squeezing past the huge metal door, into the sever room and finding a man under a hatch in IT, and when she asks for his name, he says "No Name, No Need". And she only starts calling him Solo cause he said he's been "Solo" for "Years":

[partylikemajima]

Shift (Second book of the Silo trilogy, by Hugh Howey)

Horizon Zero Dawn (First game of the Horizon video game series, by Guerrilla Games):

Don't you love when post apocalyptic stories have the theme about resetting the world for "the greater good"? 🙉

[crepuscule-pourpre]

[partylikemajima]

They're drugging the people!!!

[partylikemajima]

Shift - Hugh Howey spoilers (Second book in Silo trilogy)

I fucking hate Anna, every time i see her appear in the book, I'm literally shouting "Fuck off Anna!!!!" I hate her she's shit. She's a slimey sly piece of shit. Wonder if they have casted her in the silo tv show yet. I hope they don't make her good in the show. I need the viewers to hate her too.