For the March meeting of City Lit Books' Weird & Wonderful book club, we discussed Wool (2012) by Hugh Howey.
Noted as a self-publication success, Wool is a post-apocalyptic tale that takes place in a self-contained silo. The inhabitants live with an absolute taboo around talking about the supposedly-deadly surface or the outside world, and this society's worst punishment is to send someone "for cleaning"—going outside to clean the external sensors, before inevitably dying despite precautions. The Wool omnibus gathers the first 5 chapters of the story, introducing us to a few different protagonists as they discover the truth behind their situation.
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