Mankind struggles to survive while in a subterranean city called Silo that goes down one hundred and forty four stories under the surface. This book collects the first five Wool stories into one volume. “Wool” is the first novel in the “Silo” series and was released in the year 2012. It features the art of Jimmy Broxton and was adapted by Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti.

There is also a comic adaptation done by Jet City Comics (Amazon’s comic book imprint). The series has other short stories that make up “The Apocalypse Triptych” collection. At the same time, he holds the full rights to the books for online distribution. He signed a deal with Simon & Schuster for half a million dollars to distribute “Wool” to retailers of books all over Canada and America. He has said that without this push by fans for him to write more stories, he never would have returned to this world. Once it grew in popularity, he penned more entries to it. The story was published through Amazon’s self publishing system, to give him the freedom that comes with self publishing. The first five books are the main series, the three after are prequels, and the book after ties the first two collections together. The series first began in the year 2011, when Howey wrote “Wool” with the original intention of it being a stand alone work.

The “Silo” series written by author Hugh Howey is made up of novellas (that are also available in collected form) and is from the genres of dystopian fiction, apocalyptic fiction, and science fiction.

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