Wool (2011)

Hugh Howey

Others: Overwhelmingly positive

They live beneath the earth in a prison of their own making. There is a view of the outside world, a spoiled and rotten world, their forefathers left behind. But this view fades over time, ruined by the toxic airs that kill any who brave them. So they leave it to the criminals, those who break the rules, and who are sent to cleaning. Why do they do it, these people condemned to death? Sheriff Holston has always wondered. Now he is about to find out.

ISBN:
9780358447849
Length:
532 pages

Genres: science fiction

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wolf by Hugh Howey this book is a science fiction novel that takes place in the future in which humans are living underground in the silo type system... the story itself the plot the whole issue and things an environment that all of us is set up in is so captivating that I needed to know more... I highly recommend it to anybody who loves dystopian sci-fi novels

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