Hugh Howey

"The first book in the acclaimed, New York Times best-selling trilogy, Wool is the story of a community living in an underground silo completely unaware of the fate of the outside world. When the silo's sheriff asks to leave the silo, a series of events unravels the very fabric of their fragile lives. In a world where all commodities are precious and running out, truth and hope may be the most rare...and the most needed"-- Provided by publisher.

"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...

The old world is buried. A new one has been forged atop the shifting dunes. Here in this post-apocalyptic land of howling wind and infernal sand, four siblings find themselves scattered and lost. Their father was a sand diver, one of the elite few who could travel deep beneath the desert floor and bring up the relics and scraps that keep their people alive. But their father is gone. And the world he left behind might be next in this gripping survival

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"Five hundred of us were sent to colonize this planet. Only fifty of us survived. We woke up fifteen years too early. We had only half our training. And they expected us not only to survive-- They expected us to conquer this place. The problem is: It isn't safe here. We aren't even safe from each other."--P. [4] of cover.

"For centuries, men and women have manned lighthouses to ensure the safe passage of ships. It is a lonely job, and a thankless one for the most part. Until something goes wrong. Until a ship is in distress. In the twenty-third century, this job has moved into outer space. A network of beacons allows ships to travel across the Milky Way at many times the speed of light. These beacons are built to be robust. They never break down. They never fail. At...

Twenty-six brilliant speculative fiction stories about love, and the pain that so often accompanies it. Enjoy a cornucopia of imaginative tales, wondrous settings, and unforgettable characters-such as the disillusioned time traveler who visits ancient Japan to experience a "Moment of Zen" the young woman from planet Kiruna who can only communicate in song when the moonlet Saarakka is up, and the sorcerer who loses their happiness in a bet with a demon. Rich...

For centuries, men and women have manned lighthouses to ensure the safe passage of ships. It is a lonely job, and a thankless one for the most part. Until something goes wrong. Until a ship is in distress. In the twenty-third century, this job has moved into outer space. A network of beacons allows ships to travel across the Milky Way at many times the speed of light. These beacons are built to be robust. They never break down. They never fail. At...

Staryy mir pogreben pod peskami. Te, komu udalos' vyzhit', ili nashli pristanishche v besplodnoy koloradskoy pustyne, sredi postoyanno peremeshchayushchihsya dyun, ili poselilis' v nebol'shom poludikom gorode, v bukval'nom smysle postroennom na peske. Osobo otchayannye pustynnozhiteli peresekayut Nicheynuyu zemlyu, chtoby popytat' schast'ya vo vrazhdebnoy chuzhoy imperii, no, krome rabskoy raboty na rudnikah i postoyannoy ugrozy smerti, im tam nichego...

«Illyuziya», pervaya kniga trilogii, predstavila chitatelyam mir, sozdannyy iz podzemnyh ukrytiy, i atmosferu v nih. Vtoraya, «Smena», rasskazala istoriyu sozdaniya etih sooruzheniy. «Pyl'», kniga, zavershayushchaya trilogiyu, rasskazhet ob ih padenii. Chtoby nachalsya novyy mir, staryy mir dolzhen past'. Dzhul'etta, nyne mer Vosemnadcatogo ukrytiya, ne doveryaet Pervomu ukrytiyu, otkuda vedetsya upravlenie ostal'nymi. Osobo ey nenavisten rukovoditel'...