Wool - Silo Vol 1: Wool, Bks 1-5 - Audio CD - Unabridged Author:Hugh Howey, Amanda Sayle (Narrator) Omnibus edition contains vol 1 of the Silo series: Wool, books 1-5: Holston / Proper Gauge / Casting Off / The Unraveling / The Stranded. — The story of mankind clawing for survival, of mankind on the edge. A future world where the city, or Silo, is set deep underground, hidden from the toxins that ravage the world... more »’s surface. In a ruined and toxic landscape, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep, the view of the world outside limited, talk of it forbidden. But there are always those who hope, who dream. These are the dangerous people, the residents who infect others with their optimism. Their punishment is simple. They are given the very thing they profess to want: They are allowed outside.
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Holston (Silo Vol 1: Wool, Bk 1, Part 1): Thousands of them have lived underground. They've lived there so long, there are only legends about people living anywhere else. Such a life requires rules. Strict rules. There are things that must not be discussed. Like going outside. Never mention you might like going outside. Or you'll get what you wish for. In a society full of regulations meant to protect the community, Sheriff Holston, unexpectedly, breaks the greatest taboo of all: he asks to go outside.
Proper Gauge (Silo Vol 1: Wool, Bk 2, Part 2): A good man lies dead. The silo is now in need of a sheriff. An unlikely candidate is appointed to replace him: Juliette, a mechanic with no training in law--whose special knack is fixing machines, is about to be entrusted with fixing her silo, and she will soon learn just how badly her world is broken...The silo is about to confront what its history has only hinted about and its inhabitants have never dared to whisper. Uprising.
Casting Off (Silo Vol 1: Wool, Bk 3, Part 3): There were numbers on each of the pockets. Juliette could look down at her chest and read them, and so it occurred to her that they must be printed upside down. They were there for her to read, and for no one else. She numbly stared at them through her helmet visor while the door behind her was sealed. She wondered how she had gotten here, a girl from Mechanical who never cared one whit about the outside, who had only ever broken minor laws, and who would've been content for the rest of her life to live in the deepest bowels of the earth, covered in grease and fixing the broken things, little concern for the wider world of the dead that surrounded her -
The Unraveling (Silo Vol 1: Wool, Bk 4, Part 4): A long, long time ago, an uprising erupted in Silo 18. The descendants of that great clash have been raised in its shadow. Nobody knows what went wrong. Nobody talks about what happened. Like all wars, it went from being something one could learn from -- to a legend one merely learns about. Now, almost two hundred years later, the people of Silo 18 will get more than just a chance to learn about that uprising. They'll get to start one of their own...
The Stranded (Silo Vol 1: Wool, Bk 5, Part 5): Two people find themselves stranded in worlds apart. One world is crumbling, the other already in ruin. Will their fight to be reunited spell doom for them both and all around them? Or will it bring salvation?