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In a ruined and toxic landscape, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them. Sheriff Holston, who has unwaveringly upheld the silo's rules for years, unexpectedly breaks the greatest taboo of all: He asks to go outside.His fateful decision unleashes a drastic series of events. An unlikely candidate is appointed to replace him: Juliette, a mechanic with no training in law, whose special knack is fixing machines. Now Juliette is about to be entrusted with fixing her silo, and she will soon learn just how badly her world is broken. The silo is about to confront what its history has only hinted about and its inhabitants have never dared to whisper. Uprising.… (més)
No és ni un llibre, un conte més aviat, una noveleta. Planteja un futur on els homes han destruït el medi ambient fins al punt de veure's obligats a viure sota terra, en sitges on viuen i treballen.
El llibre es centra en una sola història, molt breu com ja he dit, però que obre les portes d'aquest món terrible amb genialitat.
El llibre és gratuït a Amazon, però les seves seqüeles no.
No tinc clar si m'agradarà en un format més llarg, però és gairebé segur que li donaré la oportunitat de demostrar-ho. ( )
The novel has been compared with the post-apocalyptic fiction of Cormac McCarthy and Justin Cronin, and is more character-driven than conventional sci-fi.
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This collected work is dedicated to anyone who dares dream of a better place.
To those who dare to hope.
Primeres paraules
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The children were playing while Holston climbed to his death; he could hear them squealing as only happy children do.
Citacions
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He’d only ever seen a gun once, a smaller one on the hip of that old deputy, a gun he’d always figured was more for show. He stuffed a fistful of deadly rounds in his pocket, thinking how each one could end an individual life, and understanding why such things were forbidden. Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one’s conscience to get in the way.
We get no credit for being sane, do we? I get no credit, even from me. From myself. I hold it together and hold it together and I make it another day, another year.
He sounded flustered. Juliette watched him busy about the stove, his movements jerky and manic, and realized she was the one cloistered away and ignorant, not him. He had all these books, decades of reading history, the company of ancestors she could only imagine. What did she have as her experience? A life in a dark hole with thousands of fellow, ignorant savages? She tried to remember this as she watched him dig a finger in his ear and then inspect his fingernail
Darreres paraules
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In a ruined and toxic landscape, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them. Sheriff Holston, who has unwaveringly upheld the silo's rules for years, unexpectedly breaks the greatest taboo of all: He asks to go outside.His fateful decision unleashes a drastic series of events. An unlikely candidate is appointed to replace him: Juliette, a mechanic with no training in law, whose special knack is fixing machines. Now Juliette is about to be entrusted with fixing her silo, and she will soon learn just how badly her world is broken. The silo is about to confront what its history has only hinted about and its inhabitants have never dared to whisper. Uprising.
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El llibre es centra en una sola història, molt breu com ja he dit, però que obre les portes d'aquest món terrible amb genialitat.
El llibre és gratuït a Amazon, però les seves seqüeles no.
No tinc clar si m'agradarà en un format més llarg, però és gairebé segur que li donaré la oportunitat de demostrar-ho. (