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The world outside has grown toxic, the view of it limited, talk of it forbidden. The remnants of humanity live underground in a single silo. But there are always those who hope, who dream. These are the dangerous people, the residents who infect others with their optimism. Their punishment is simple. They are given the very thing they want: They are allowed to go outside.

Hugh Howey is known for crafting riveting and immersive tales of boundless imagination. Now comes Machine Learning, an impressive collection of Howey's science fiction and fantasy short fiction, including three stories set in the world of Wool, two never-before-published tales written exclusively for this volume, and 15 additional stories collected here for the first time. These stories explore everything from artificial intelligence to parallel universes to video games, and each story is accompanied by an author's note.

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.

Unsere Welt ist zerstört, begraben unter mächtigen Sanddünen, die alles verschluckt haben, was die Zivilisation einst ausmachte. Die wenigen Überlebenden an der Oberfläche führen ein einfaches, entbehrungsreiches Dasein. Doch sie haben sich eine besondere Fertigkeit angeeignet: das Sandtauchen. Tief unter den Dünen begeben sie sich auf die Suche nach den wertvollen Artefakten aus vergangener Zeit. Dabei finden sie etwas, das ihnen äußerst gefährlich wird.

It wasn't easy for Molly being the only girl in Flight Academy, but getting expelled was even worse. Abandoned by her family when she was young and now tossed from the only home she's ever known, her future looks bleak.

But then Molly hears that her father's old starship has turned up halfway across the galaxy. Setting off to retrieve the old craft, she hopes it will hold clues to his disappearance. Accompanying her as a chaperone is Cole, her old flight partner from the Academy.

En 2049, le monde est encore tel que nous le connaissons, mais le temps est compté. Seuls quelques potentats savent ce que l’avenir réserve... Deuxième volet, en forme de prequel, de la trilogie culte Silo, qui confère à l’univers imaginé par Hugh Howey une ampleur et une complexité saisissantes.

“Hugh’s imaginative worlds and tales within them never fail to entertain!” —Andy Weir, New York Times bestselling author of Project Hail Mary The first original novel from author Hugh Howey in six years, Across the Sand takes us back to the world of Sand, to a far future many generations...

Dans un futur postapocalyptique indéterminé, une communauté d’hommes et de femmes a organisé sa survie dans un silo souterrain géant. Du monde extérieur, devenu hostile, personne ne sait rien, sinon que l’atmosphère y est désormais irrespirable. Les images de mauvaise qualité relayées par d’antiques caméras, montrant un paysage de ruines et de dévastation balayé de vents violents et de noirs nuages, ne semblent laisser aucune place à l’illusion. Pourtant, certains continuent d’espérer. Ces individus, dont l’optimisme pourrait s’avérer contagieux, représentent un danger potentiel.

Famine. Death. War. Pestilence. These are the harbingers of the biblical apocalypse, of the End of the World. In science fiction, the end is triggered by less figurative means: nuclear holocaust, biological warfare/pandemic, ecological disaster, or cosmological cataclysm. But before any catastrophe, there are people who see it coming. During, there are heroes who fight against it. And after, there are the survivors who persevere and try to rebuild. "The Apocalypse Triptych" will tell their stories.

A collection of the year’s best science fiction and fantasy short fiction selected by New York Times bestselling author of the Silo series Hugh Howey and series editor John Joseph Adams. “These are dangerous stories. The kind that warp reality and threaten to change the world” warns guest...

Donald a pris la place de Thurman. Juliette, quant à elle, est maire du silo 18, et compte en découdre avec les dirigeants du silo 1. Le compte à rebours commence. Donald parviendra-t-il à déjouer la logique macabre du silo 1 ? Juliette réussira-t-elle à s’échapper du silo 18 ? La vie sur Terre pourra-t-elle reprendre, ou s’agit-il d’un ultime leurre ? Avec "Silo Générations", Hugh Howey apporte la touche finale à un cycle déjà culte.

In just a few short weeks, a group of young orphans have come together to form a family. They have united in the most unlikely of alliances, finding strength in the tight bonds of friendship. In their individual cultures, these orphans were seen as children. At best, they were ignored by their elders. At worst, they are treated as nuisances, told what they could and could not do. But no one ever told them they couldn't save the universe. Nobody knew they would ever get the chance....

A batalha pelo Silo já foi vencida. A guerra pela humanidade só está começando. É um tempo em que, para sobreviver, os humanos precisam se manter em cidades subterrâneas, aprisionados, sem ligação com o mundo lá fora. Juliette, uma operária nascida nos subterrâneos, é a heroína da trama apocalíptica. Em Legado, ela se torna prefeita do Silo 18, que está se recuperando de uma rebelião.

Ordem, segundo volume da trilogia Silo, apresenta um mundo pós-apocalíptico, com poucos seres humanos restantes sobrevivendo à atmosfera tóxica do planeta Terra em um silo subterrâneo.

Adam Griffey is living two lives. By day, he teaches literature. At night, he steals it. Adam is a plagiarist, an expert reader with an eye for great works. He prowls simulated worlds perusing virtual texts, looking for the next big thing. And when he finds it, he memorizes it page by page, line by line, word for word. And then he brings it back to his world, the real world, and he sells it. But what happens when these virtual worlds begin to seem more real than his own? What happens when the people within them mean more to him than flesh and blood?

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. George Orwell once wrote of a world where abuse of power begins with an abuse of language and a bastardization of truth. Some of today's most exciting voices in speculative fiction explore the ramifications of those ideas in Ignorance Is Strength.