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Hugh C. Howey (born 1975, Charlotte, North Carolina) is an American writer, known best for the science fiction series Silo, part of which he published independently through Amazon.com's Kindle Direct Publishing system; he later signed distribution deals, with large publishing houses in different countries, but maintains the publishing rights and all e-book publishing. Personal life Howey was born in 1975 in Charlotte, North Carolina and was raised in Monroe, North Carolina. Before publishing his books, he worked as a book store clerk, yacht captain, roofer, and audio technician. In mid-2015, Howey moved to St Francis Bay, Eastern Cape, South Africa. He commissioned the construction of a sailing catamaran, on which he sailed from Cape Town to Australia. In November 2022, Howey married pilot and former model Shay Londre. They live in New York City. Wool He began the series in 2011, initially writing Wool as a standalone short story. His first book was initially published with a small press. After that, he decided to publish through Amazon.com's Kindle Direct Publishing system because of the freedom of self-publishing. After the series grew in popularity, he began to write more entries for it. Howey began soliciting international rights in 2012, including signing a deal for Brazil. Film rights to the series were sold to 20th Century Fox; Lionsgate also expressed interest. In 2012, Howey signed a deal with Simon & Schuster to distribute Wool to book retailers across the US and Canada. The deal allowed Howey to continue to sell the book online exclusively. He notably turned down seven figure offers in favor of a mid-six figure sum, in return for maintaining e-book rights. He has also signed publishing contracts with Random House Century UK for UK distribution of both his Wool and Sand series, published as novels of the same names. Howey became closely tied to both Amazon/Kindle Direct Publishing and self-publishing as a leader of the new paradigm of publishing. He opened up his Silo Saga to other authors, formalizing that effort when he signed with Kindle Worlds. Though authors like Fredric Shernoff (Atlantic Island), Jason Gurley (Eleanor), and Michael Bunker (Pennsylvania) all experienced some degree of success that can be attributed to Howey, Wool, and the Kindle Worlds project, nobody was able to replicate Wool's success either through tie-in books or those authors' original stories. Bibliography Novels Silo series: Wool (2012), fix-up novel of one short story and four novellas: "Wool: Holston", "Wool: Proper Gauge" (novella), "Wool: Casting Off" (novella), "Wool: The Unraveling" (novella), "Wool: The Stranded" (novella) Shift (2013), prequel, fix-up novel of three novellas: "First Shift: Legacy", "Second Shift: Order", "Third Shift: Pact" Dust (2013) The Sand Chronicles: Sand (2014), fix-up novel of five novellas: "The Belt of the Buried Gods", "Out of No Man's Land", "Return to Danvar", "Thunder Due East", "A Rap Upon Heaven's Gate" Across the Sand (2022) Stand-alones: I, Zombie (2012) The Shell Collector (2014) Beacon 23 (2015), fix-up novel of five short stories: "Beacon 23: Part One: Little Noises", "Beacon 23: Part Two: Pet Rocks", "Beacon 23: Part Three: Bounty", "Beacon 23: Part Four: Company", "Beacon 23: Part Five: Visitor" Young adult novels Bern Saga: Molly Fyde and the Parsona Rescue (2009) Molly Fyde and the Land of Light (2010) Molly Fyde and the Blood of Billions (2010) Molly Fyde and the Fight for Peace (2010) Molly Fyde and the Darkness Deep (TBA) Stand-alones: Half Way Home (2010) The Hurricane (2011) Short stories Collections: Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories (2017), collection of 16 short stories and five novelettes/novellas: "The Walk Up Nameless Ridge", "Second Suicide" (novelette), "Nothing Goes to Waste", "Deep Blood Kettle", "Machine Learning", "Executable", "The Box", "Glitch" (novelette), "In the Air" (Silo series), "In the Mountains" (Silo series), "In the Woods" (novelette, Silo series), "Hell from the East", "The Black Beast", "The Good God", "The Automated Ones", "Mouth Breathers", "WHILE (u > i) i--;", "The Plagiarist" (novella), "Select Character", "Promises of London", "Peace in Amber" (novelette) Silo series: "In the Air" (2014) "In the Mountains" (2014) "In the Woods" (2015), novelette Uncollected short stories: "Gloria" (2015) "Full Unemployment" (2017) "The Blast" (2018) "No Algorithms in the World" (2019) "Bones of Gossamer" (2019) Children's books Misty: The Proud Cloud (2014), picture book illustrated by Nidhi Chanani Comics Wool: The Graphic Novel (2014), with Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray, illustrated by Jimmy Broxton, ISBN 1-47784-912-2 Non-fiction Wayfinding series: Wayfinding Part 1: Rats and Rafts (2015) Wayfinding Part 2: Hell and Heaven (2015) Wayfinding Part 3: Hot & Cold (2015) Wayfinding Part 4: Old World & New (2015) Wayfinding Part 5: Consciousness and Subconsciousness (2015) Wayfinding Part 6: Highs and Lows (2015) Wayfinding - Food and Fitness (2015) As editor The Apocalypse Triptych, with John Joseph Adams: The End is Nigh (2014) The End is Now (2014) The End Has Come (2015) Filmography Television Wool Production on the serialization of Wool was announced in 2012. After development was begun by AMC, the project was moved to Apple TV+ in May 2021, and the ten-episode first season began streaming in May 2023. Beacon 23 In 2018 it was announced that the Beacon 23 series was going to be adapted into a television series. Filming began in 2022, and the series premiered on MGM+ in November 2023. References External links Official website Hugh Howey at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database Anon. (December 2013). "Artisanal publishing : Hugh Howey". Locus (635): 72–74. "How Bestselling Author Hugh Howey Writes". Copyblogger. Retrieved 9 September 2015. "Winning at the Self-publishing Game with Hugh Howey – The Knowledge Project Episode 63". FS.BLOG. Retrieved 3 September 2019. Hugh Howey at Library of Congress, with 3 library catalog records. Discover the Hugh Howey popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Hugh Howey books.
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Press Start to Play
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Sentiment, Inc.
Poul AndersonThe way we feel about another person, or about objects, is often bound up in associations that have no direct connection with the person or object at all. Often, what we call a ...
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Masters of Space
E. E. Smith & E. Everett EvansThe Masters had ruled all space with an unconquerable iron fist. But the Masters were gone. And this new, young race who came now to take their place could they hope to defeat the...
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Half Way Home
Hugh Howey"Brilliant pacing. Vivid characters. Realistic science. Hugh Howey's Half Way Home tackles the tribal instincts currently tearing the world apart, giving fresh insights into the ps...
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Invaders from the Infinite
John CampbellThe famous scientific trio of Arcot, Wade and Morey, challenged by the most ruthless aliens in all the universes, blasted off on an intergalactic search for defenses against the in...
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City of Endless Night
Milo HastingsWhen but a child of seven my uncle placed me in a private school in which one of the socalled redeemed subsailors was a teacher of the German language. As I look back now, in the l...
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The Hive Construct
Alexander MaskillSituated deep in the Sahara Desert, New Cairo is a city built on technology – from the huge, lifegiving solar panels that keep it functioning in a radically changed, resourcescarce...
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Anarchy
Megan DeVosTHIRTY MILLION READERS WORLDWIDE.'I reread them again recently and fell in love all over again!!!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'I could NOT put it down' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'READ IT! You'll love it' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐The world is d...
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Into The Fire
Peter LineyThe second in Peter Liney's Detainee series. Clancy thought escape from the island would be enough. He was wrong.Having escaped the island a wasteland that housed those no longer ...
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The Hate Disease
Murray LeinsterThe Med Service people hit strange problems as routine: if they weren't weirdos, they weren't tough enough to merit Med Service attention. Now the essence of a weird proble...
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Man of Many Minds
E. Everett EvansSomewhere, somehow, the first moves have been made the pattern is beginning to emerge. Someone or something is on the way to supreme power over all the planets held by Man. And ...
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Wool 1 - Wool
Hugh HoweyThousands of them have lived underground. They've lived there so long, there are only legends about people living anywhere else. Such a life requires rules. Strict rules. There are...
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Dominion
John Connolly & Jennifer RidyardThe third thrilling Chronicles of the Invaders adventure from New York Times bestselling author John Connolly and Jennifer Ridyard mixes classic scifi with gripping suspense and ri...
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The Machine Stops
E. M. ForsterThe Machine Stops is a science fiction short story by E. M. Forster. After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review (November 1909), the story was republished in Fors...
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Loyalty
Megan DeVosTHIRTY MILLION READERS WORLDWIDE. INCLUDES EXCLUSIVE NEVER BEFORE SEEN CHAPTER.'The Hunger Games meets The Road' MTVDon't look back. That's where the danger lies.With Grace left r...
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In Constant Fear
Peter LineyHe thought he'd escaped. But peace is hard to find and harder still to keep . . . The third in Peter Liney's Detainee series.Over a year has passed since Clancy escaped the hell t...
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Lone Star Planet
H. Beam PiperWhen the whole ornery state of Texas took off for a new planet more to their liking, New Texas was the result: a roughandtumble world where everyone packs a gun and it's legal ...
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Pariah Planet
Murray LeinsterA terrible blue plague has struck on the planet of Dara, sending fear out across all of the nearby worlds in the region. Fear quickly leads to hate which threatens the peace of the...
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The Runaway Skyscraper
Murray LeinsterThe whole thing started when the clock on the Metropolitan Tower began to run backward. It was not a graceful proceeding. The hands had been moving onward in their customary delibe...
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The Detainee
Peter Liney'Of all the dystopian novels I have read in recent years, Peter Liney's The Detainee is one the best written, most engaging, hearttugging and cinematic of all' Amazon ReviewerTher...
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And Then the Town Took Off
Richard WilsonThe town of Superior, Ohio, certainly was living up to its name! In what was undoubtedly the most spectacular feat of the century, it simply picked itself up one night and rose two...
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Revolution
Megan DeVosTHIRTY MILLION READERS WORLDWIDE. INCLUDES EXCLUSIVE NEVER BEFORE SEEN CHAPTER.'The Hunger Games meets The Road' MTVYou fight, you kill, you steal, you lie.... or you die. As war ...
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Empire
John Connolly & Jennifer RidyardWith the fate of the world at stake, Syl and Paul battle the sinister forces of the Nairene Sisterhood in this second thrilling Chronicles of the Invaders novel from New York Times...
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The Rig
Roger LevyOn a desert planet, two boys meet, sparking a friendship that will change human society forever. On the windswept world of Bleak, a string of murders lead a writer to a story with ...
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Annihilation
Megan DeVosTHIRTY MILLION READERS WORLDWIDE. INCLUDES EXCLUSIVE NEVER BEFORE SEEN CHAPTER.'The Hunger Games meets The Road' MTVThis is the end of us all.For Hayden and Grace, the threat of w...
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The Mystery Hat
Rune Brandt Bennicke & Jakob Hjort JensenCrow, Pig, and Beaver are taking a nice stroll in the woods when they come across a red hat sitting in a puddle. Whose hat is it? What mysterious circumstances could have brought i...