I'm happy to add the Silo series to my current favorites, and I look forward to reading Shift in the near future. I get reader burn out easy, though, so I know better than to jump into another chunky monkey from the same series. If Wool hadn't weighed in at 500+ pages, there's no doubt I would have immediately picked up the next book in the Silo series. The Wool omnibus is also the first book in the Silo series, but for those of you who are series shy, it can absolutely stand on its own. As Wool progressed, I had more and more trouble suspending my disbelief and there were a couple of plot holes, but overall the suspense and the characters and my curiosity about the silo and the world outside was plenty enough to overcome the technicalities. It was exciting to have my love for dystopia totally renewed. The punishment for committing such a taboo? You get your wish. The highest crime is professing a desire to go outside. There is a view up top of the outside, but it's dangerous to spend time dreaming or wondering about the outside. The earth has become uninhabitable, and those who have survived live in a giant silo below the ground. So what's the dystopian hook with Wool? A silo. Wool wasn't perfect, but I loved it pretty hard core.ĭystopians and I haven't gotten along for a while now, but Wool has reminded me of everything I love about a great dystopian. They are given the very thing they profess to want: They are allowed outside. These are the dangerous people, the residents who infect others with their optimism. But there are always those who hope, who dream. The world outside has grown unkind, the view of it limited, talk of it forbidden. This is the story of mankind clawing for survival, of mankind on the edge. Your demand created this as much as I did. My thanks go out to those reviewers who clamored for more.

Due to reviewer demand, the rest of the story was released over the next six months.

The first Wool story was released as a standalone short in July of 2011. It is for those who arrived late to the party and who wish to save a dollar or two while picking up the same stories in a single package. This Omnibus Edition collects the five Wool books into a single volume.

The wool omnibus