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The Silo Saga, Book 2

De: Hugh Howey

Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini

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The second volume in the New York Times bestselling Silo series. Hugh Howey goes back to show the first days of the Silo, and the beginning of the end.

In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platforms that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate.

In the same year, the CBS network re-aired a program about the effects of propranolol on sufferers of extreme trauma. A simple pill, it had been discovered, could wipe out the memory of any traumatic event.

At almost the same moment in humanity’s broad history, mankind discovered the means for bringing about its utter downfall. And the ability to forget it ever happened.

©2013 Hugh Howey (P)2023 Blackstone Publishing

Loved it

Great second book! The beginning of the book is kind of odd because you expect it to pick up where it left off from the first book but it doesn’t. But then it all ties in at the end and it’s fantastic.

Well done!

I had wondered if was necessary to read this book before moving on to the final. It’s a vital piece of the story. It’s devastating at times, but there are beautiful moments and answers to mysteries. My eyes got a bit wet when an old friend was laid to rest and I laughed out loud at the end. Thank you to the author, narrator, and everyone involved.

Provocative

This book makes me question organizations,institutions,power in general. Authorities are meant to be questioned and regulated or else we too could end up like this. If we aren’t already.

Great story

I can usually predict what direction a story is moving. Not this one. I was totally surprised. Great book.

Better than expected!

With books and TV shows I generally hate when in the middle of a story a prequel or time jump back happens. It usually break the story up and although important information I’m always like why didn’t it just start there in the first place. That said this was a generally intriguing glimpse into the ones who conceived and first occupied the silos and although the time span is hundreds of years, the nature of the story and whole storyline is brought into where you left off at the end of the first book, kind of tying everything together in a way that some prequels don’t. I’m about to get the third book in the series and I think as a whole work they’re amazing.