![]() This is a world where the air is deadly, and where humanity has lived ever since anyone can remember, in a giant underground silo, a bunker hundreds of storeys deep, creating everything people need beneath the earth. This author can really write, and the dystopian life he has imagined is, at times, truly disturbing. The Fifty Shades comparison does Howey an injustice, however. ![]() His novel now runs to over 500 pages and has hit US bestseller lists, with book deals on both sides of the Atlantic, and film rights picked up by Ridley Scott. By October, readers were clamouring for more, and he duly obliged. Howey initially self-published the first instalment of his post-apocalyptic story – just 60 pages – in July 2011. P erhaps inevitably, Hugh Howey's Wool has been described as the science fiction version of Fifty Shades of Grey. ![]()
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