But then we've had the NSA issue crop up, which makes WOOL appear prescient to some degree. In a lot of ways, the things I write about are timeless. I certainly tried to inject some of our times and culture into the work. A greater strength, I think, lies in not wanting to fight at all but to find some other method of resolution.ĭystopias often say quite a bit about the society in which they were originally written. There is so much more than flexing a muscle or knowing how to kick someone's butt. One of the problems I see with a lot of strong female characters in fiction is that their strength seems to lie in displaying a masculine toughness.
When I create characters, I don't like to allow their genders to define them. Writing gives me the opportunity to really create. I've always wanted to build things, but I mostly just break them and tear them apart. It goes all the way back to grade school when I used to buy pads of graph paper and draw out intricate house plans.
I taught myself AutoCAD when I was younger and used to build structures out of foam board like I was a real architect. Not formally, but I wish I'd been an architect.
We find out in the second volume that they were designed by a congressman with a background in architecture - do you also have that kind of experience? The silos are horrific, but they're also masterpieces of design built to last, completely self-contained, for centuries. And she begins to uncover the mystery of why they're there and what's really outside." "When the sheriff of this silo leaves in search of his wife, a mechanic from the lowest levels takes his place. In the world of WOOL, the planet has grown uninhabitable and the remnants of mankind live in an underground silo," he writes. Over email, Howey describes WOOL as "like the TV show Lost, except with an ending that makes sense. Howey found himself writing sequel after sequel to keep up with reader demand - the latest volume, Dust, was released in August. He'd self-published several novels and stories when the sci-fi dystopia WOOL, originally just a novella, found sudden runaway success in 2011. How?Īfter a varied career as a computer repairman and yacht captain, Hugh Howey turned his hand to writing. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title WOOL Author Hugh Howey
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