The conclusion is not five hundred pages away. Firstly, each formerly serialized novella acts as an encapsulated adventure. At over five hundred pages, the book feels like a long haul, but it’s not. That’s the creepy thread running through this novel, the element of ‘this isn’t right’ that inspires the plot and plucks certain characters from obscurity to notice as a ripple of the unreal flushes from top to bottom.Įach part of the novel is compelling. A festival-like atmosphere takes over the silo in the wake of a cleaning and if you’re thinking that sounds kind of strange, you’re not alone. Residents of ‘the mids’ and ‘deep down’ might venture up the staircase that acts as a highway of sorts, connecting all one hundred and fifty levels of the silo, to take advantage of the rarest of sights, a dawn unsullied by a coating of toxic dust. Once there, they are expected to clean the camera sensors before invariably wandering halfway up the surrounding hill to die, presumably from the toxic atmosphere that quickly eats through the suit.Ĭleanings don’t happen often, but they are an event that inspires upward mobility. Serious crimes carry an unusual sentence: the condemned are suited up and sent outside with a set of wool scrubbers. Residents in close proximity, the mayor, the sheriff and deputy, the up top café staff, and those condemned to clean. Though the view is open to anyone who wishes to look, only a portion of the population usually take advantage. ‘Up top’ has a view of the outside world, courtesy of a series of cameras. The survivors of an unknown apocalypse live in a giant silo that delves deep into the earth, one hundred and fifty stories down. The setting is “post-apocalyptic interior” which is something I made up just for this review. Wool is a series of five novellas by Hugh Howey, collected into one omnibus edition that works as a novel.
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