he guy who unloaded the three “Silo Series” books on me also gave me a thin little thing, sixty pages long. In Silo, we get three little short stories. The first one is about a man who was considering going to Atlanta (right before the fall of everything) and decides not to take that lifeboat, but instead ops for his own path. In the second, a woman he’d had an affair with has holed up in Colorado with a bunch of anti-siloists, who hate the entire nanobot releasing group of the Atlanta silos and vows revenge, only to realize that they massively miscalculated the time required underground, and come up with a horrible solution to get someone – anyone – to last 500 years. And in the third, we look in on Jules, Solo and the rest of the Siloists in their Garden of Eden (as I noted in my review of “Dust”), to see how they are doing.
Like S.A. Corey’s Memory’s Legion, Silo is a collection of short stories that carries the massive literary effort just a little further, to let us know a bit more of the story. And in that, I liked it. It was a quick day’s read, well worth the effort (especially since it was free (i.e. a loaner)). So yes, if you liked the series, you might want to pick this up wherever Fine Books are Wish Fulfilled (ugh). Especially if you want to know how it truly comes out.