![]() ![]() I’m probably more like Lukas or there’s a character later in the book, Solo, who’s really quirky and interesting. And I think people are drawn to her because everybody wants to see, there’s a part of her that we all hope to have, this indomitable spirit, this curiosity on how things work, this belief that things can be repaired first with machines and later with people. I mean, she’s the most popular character I’ve ever written in over 20 plus novels. And I was reading through some of your bio, and it seems like Juliette, the main character, might have a little bit of you in her with her love for machines and so forth. RM: It’s fascinating the characters that you’ve developed. And I created this world where if you talk like that, you’re considered a threat and you’re sent out to die. And for me, the human spirit is the belief that we can fix things, make things better. So my way of making it worse was to put everybody underground and to have this terrible view of the outside world. ![]() But I just realized that we weren’t seeing things as they really are, but through these filters.Īnd so I wondered, how bad could this be? That’s the sci-fi, the way we work is we see something in the news and we’re like, “How can we make this worse?” And then we write a story around that. And it’s filtered and it’s often bad news and social media might be falsely positive views of the world. But getting our news, getting our opinions, seeing our friends’ and family’s lives through screens. I was just fascinated by how much we were getting our view of the world through our screens, which you and I are doing right now. And it was just going to be a short story. Hugh Howey: It started with the wall screen, for me. I understand it was your book series first, so talk to me about how you even came up with the idea and created this world. ![]() I love the unique environment and the characters. Risen Magazine: I have to tell you that I sat down and prepped for our conversation watching the first episode of Silo - and five episodes in - I was like, “I have to go to sleep.” It is so good. The society is governed by a strict set of rules and to disobey is death… we talked with Howey about bringing this story to the screen, his emotional experience on the set, the amazing cast and why he was happy to be wrong! He has complete control over it and for fans like me? It works because I can keep diving into these worlds whenever I want.Based on the bestselling trilogy of novels by Hugh Howey, SILO is set in the future where a community of 10,000 people survives in a giant silo hundreds of stories deep underground. He writes how he wants to write and releases it whenever he wants to. He isn't limited by the publishing world to release his books at a certain pace, and after a series of teams edit away the core of it. ![]() This entire series begs to differ with that argument, and wins. This is the author, enveloping himself in such a unique world and delivering a knock-out punch to those who feel a self-published book is just not as good as one you'd pick up at the store. There is no big-five publisher responsible for editing any of it. Dust is what I remember Wool to be, and I keep shaking my head when I remind myself that these are self-published books (although Simon & Schuster did convince the author to release Wool in print, which brought a larger fandom). It returns back to characters from Wool and places them in situations to engage with the characters from Shift, and it is awesome. This beautiful installment captures the magic that was Wool and more so. The bottom line? I LOVED THIS BOOK.Īnd then Dust. As many of you know, science fiction is not one I'm that used to, so I can easily assure you that if your reading preferences include political corruption, mystery, thrillers, suspense, love, and more, I highly recommend that you step outside of your boundaries and do a dual risk of reading a self-published tale and one that just happens to be labeled as science fiction. This, when released in print next year by Simon and Schuster, will be picked up on the day of release and will rest nicely on my bookshelf next to Stephen King's The Stand, Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian, Ken Follet's Pillars of the Earth, and other favorites that I always want to have at my fingertips. It is one of the BEST books I have ever read in my LIFETIME, and is my absolute favorite book of the year. That means about 1200+ pages (screens?) that I flew through, desperate to know what happened next. Each character was so thoroughly developed and the action so intense that I happily read the entire book on my iPhone. I'm going to cheat a little bit and use a few lines of my review of the first installment to start: I couldn't believe how sucked in I was. ![]()
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