Shift

By Hugh Howey

Book Overview

SEASON 2 OF THE ACCLAIMED SILO SERIES -- BASED ON BOOK 1, WOOL -- NOW ON APPLE TV+

In this second volume in the New York Times best-selling Silo series, Hugh Howey describes the catastrophic events that led to the creation of the silo-- and the beginning of the end

In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platforms that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate. The technology has an almost limitless capacity for good--but in the wrong hands, it could have an equally boundless capacity for evil.

In the same year, the CBS network re-aired a program about the effects of propranolol on sufferers of extreme trauma. A simple pill, it had been discovered, could wipe out the memory of any traumatic event.

At almost the same moment in humanity's broad history, mankind discovered the means for bringing about its utter downfall, and the ability to forget it ever happened. With this godlike power at their fingertips, can humanity be trusted to create a new--and better--world? Or is it doomed to bring about its own destruction?

THE STORY CONTINUES IN:

DUST

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0544839641
• ISBN13: 9780544839649
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.2" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Better than Apple

When I began this tryptic of novels, I did not know Apple had optioned it. Hugh Howey is a master of suspense and intrigue with his Silo series. Well outlined and written so that you care about the characters as well as how they found themselves in such dire straits. Should you have found the show to be entertaining, you really need to read his books, as the show just glosses over the true depth of this epic