y friend Pete loaned this book (first of three) to read. I was a bit hesitant – I don’t know Pete’s tastes and if they weren’t mine, well, I’d just signed up for about 570 pages of regret.

Needn’t have worried.

Wool jumps right in. The last of humanity live in a silo underground, about 150 floors deep with nothing but a circular stairwell to join them. The world outside is toxic and dead, but people still enjoy sitting in front of the big display, watching it. And to keep those camera lenses clean, every so often (when someone cracks from the confinement or disrupts order, they get put in a suit and shoved out the door to clean the lenses and then stagger off to die (you can still see the scattering of corpses littering the sandy landscape). And to clean the lenses, they are given some cleaning solution and a wad of wool. So see, there’s the title.

So why would nutty or antisocial outcasts agree to this, to do their murderers a favor before death?

That’s part of the fun of the book.

And also, the fun is playing “who’s the main character”. I thought I knew, and then I didn’t. If shifts about, just as our worldview changes and we learn more and more about this bleak world.

And if you want to learn even more, there are two more books in the series, so enjoy!

Loved it. Thanks, Pete.

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