Shift

· Blackstone Publishing · Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini
59 reviews
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Watch Silo, the Apple TV+ series based on the bestselling Silo Saga, starting May, 2023!

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.

Watch Silo, the Apple TV+ series based on the bestselling Silo Saga, starting May, 2023! 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) ...

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59 reviews
Tyler Wahlquist
March 29, 2024
in short: yes, I would recommend reading it if you plan to finish all 3 books. The story is intriguing and it ties a lot together in the last book. That said....the internal dialogues that characters have with themselves in 'Shift' are repetitive and EXHAUSTING. I mean seriously...I understood how the character felt the first 3 times they explained it. I don't need it to be repeated 20 more times in long monologues over and over again. The book might be half as long if you cut out all that duplicate fluff. Aside from that, I liked the book
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Rex Geek
August 2, 2025
Decent story, but sadly starts devolving into the fashionable "Women smart heroines, Men mentally deficient or unstable" trope.
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Kale Brownie
December 17, 2024
Just keeps getting better! I will say around chapter 84 or 86 the chapter get mixed up, still in order but says it's a different chapter.
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About the author

Hugh Howey is the author of the award-winning Molly Fyde saga and the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Wool series. The Wool Omnibus Edition won Kindle Book Review’s 2012 Indie Book of the Year Award—it has been as high as #1 on Amazon—and forty countries have picked up the work for translation.

Edoardo Ballerini is a two-time winner of the Audio Publisher Association’s Best Male Narrator Award, a two-time winner of Society of Voice Arts Awards, and was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine in 2019.

Hugh Howey is the author of the award-winning Molly Fyde saga and the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Wool series. The Wool Omnibus Edition won Kindle Book Review’s 2012 Indie Book of the Year Award—it has been as high as #1 on Amazon—and forty countries have picked up the work for trans...

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