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Wool Omnibus
You must read this book!
Set in a future in which humanity is condemned to live in a massive, underground silo, memory of life on the surface relegated to childrens' picture books and the video projection of the ruin of a city (Atlanta, it seems) on the top level, the Wool Omibus is a collection of 5 novellas forming a single, continuous story.
The title, it seems, refers to the wool pads used to clean the viewports of the cameras providing the the view of the outside. The city the outside stands in ruins; the atmosphere is choking and toxic; the people who go outside to clean have been banished and will never come back.
The first novella (free for Kindle) concerns the sherriff of the silo, who becomes convinced that the video projection of the ruins and toxic waste outside is an illusion propagated by the rulers, and he decides to go outside to prove it. When he gets there, he sees the vivid colors and beauty predicted by his wife (who preceded him by 2 years), until …
Five stars because that's as high as I can go.
You must read this book!
Set in a future in which humanity is condemned to live in a massive, underground silo, memory of life on the surface relegated to childrens' picture books and the video projection of the ruin of a city (Atlanta, it seems) on the top level, the Wool Omibus is a collection of 5 novellas forming a single, continuous story.
The title, it seems, refers to the wool pads used to clean the viewports of the cameras providing the the view of the outside. The city the outside stands in ruins; the atmosphere is choking and toxic; the people who go outside to clean have been banished and will never come back.
The first novella (free for Kindle) concerns the sherriff of the silo, who becomes convinced that the video projection of the ruins and toxic waste outside is an illusion propagated by the rulers, and he decides to go outside to prove it. When he gets there, he sees the vivid colors and beauty predicted by his wife (who preceded him by 2 years), until …
Five stars because that's as high as I can go.