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Your Saturday Book Review — Wool-Part One and Wool Omnibus (Silo Series)

Wool – Part I

I hadn’t heard of Wool till a week ago, when I saw it mentioned on an Internet forum about “great” self-published books. As the great Dan Holloway was doing the mentioning, I googled it, and found articles on Slate and WSJ about this best-selling phenomenon.

The initial story is FREE. That’s right folks, free! So you have nothing to lose by downloading it right now! It’s approximately 58 pages by Amazon’s estimate. My estimate would put it between 14,000-18,000 words – short enough to be read electronically, even by people who aren’t crazy about reading electronic books. It exists in print as well, but the self-published paperback is currently being sold as a collector’s item, and the traditionally published print version isn’t out yet.

The story takes place in the hours before Sheriff Holston’s scheduled execution for the crime of asking to “go out” of the underground silo, in which he and thousands of others live. “Out” is a poisonous landscape where no one can survive. This stand-alone tale reads like classic science fiction, or maybe simply classic fiction, and begins: “The children were playing while Holsten climbed to his death…” Continue reading Your Saturday Book Review — Wool-Part One and Wool Omnibus (Silo Series)