Shift - Hardcover

Howey, Hugh

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0544839617 ISBN 13: 9780544839618

Publisher: Harper Voyager, 2016

Synopsis

<div>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&#8217;s broad history, mankind discovered the means for bringing about its utter downfall. And the ability to forget it ever happened. This is the second volume in the&#160;<i>New York Times&#160;</i>best-selling Wool series.</div>

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Review

"Brilliantly written...Howey creates a starkly believable and terrifying apocalypse. More and more layers of the dystopian world are unveiled, enticingly paving the way for the sequel Dust..." (Sunday Express)

"We have been mesmerised with Hugh Howey's silo stories since we first laid eyes on book one in the trilogy ... We'd recommend reading Wool first but you'll want to have this one ready as we guarantee you'll be unable to put it down. Perfect sunshine reading, wouldn't you say?" (Grazia Daily)

"The anxiety, the claustrophobia and the lethargy he conjures are heartfelt and convincing." (Observer)

"Spoken about in the same breath as The Hunger Games and The Passage." (Independent on Sunday (praise for the Wool Trilogy))

"Thrilling, thought-provoking and memorable ... one of dystopian fiction's masterpieces alongside the likes of 1984 and Brave New World." (Daily Express (praise for the Wool Trilogy))

Book Description

The much anticipated prequel to bestseller Wool.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harper Voyager
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0544839617
• ISBN 13: 9780544839618
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 570