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The Silo Archipelago #2
Resist
Leah, a recycling worker from the mids, is ushered into Samizdat - an underground league of thinkers, writers, and artists who publish and distribute illegal books throughout the silo. She's been arrested and released, and now she's headed to the down-deep to meet up with her mysterious father, and to face what is really going on in the silo.
RESIST is a short story of about 13k words (about 85 pages) that takes place in the world of Hugh Howey's bestselling WOOL saga. It is the second of a three part series that will make up The Silo Archipelago. Written with Hugh's permission, The Silo Archipelago series examines the issues of control, tyranny, and censorship through the lens of history. Throughout time, dissident writers have used paper and words as weapons of war against both governments and really bad ideas. REFUSE and RESIST, in the spirit of A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch and The Gulag Archipelago, examine what would happen if there were literary dissidents in the silos of Hugh Howey's WOOL.
RESIST is a short story of about 13k words (about 85 pages) that takes place in the world of Hugh Howey's bestselling WOOL saga. It is the second of a three part series that will make up The Silo Archipelago. Written with Hugh's permission, The Silo Archipelago series examines the issues of control, tyranny, and censorship through the lens of history. Throughout time, dissident writers have used paper and words as weapons of war against both governments and really bad ideas. REFUSE and RESIST, in the spirit of A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch and The Gulag Archipelago, examine what would happen if there were literary dissidents in the silos of Hugh Howey's WOOL.
- GenresDystopia
60 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 21, 2013
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June 10, 2013
I've ended the Archipelago Series a few days ago, but I did not write the review immediately. Not for lack of emotions, quite the contrary, it kept returning to my mind waiting over and over.
Without being irrespectful, this story could have been written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; it represents perfectly a distant (or not so distant?) future and the struggle for freedom, not physical freedom, but the freedom to express oneself in one of the most suitable ways to human beings: writing.
While reading on my Kindle I found myself thinking how there was a bit of irony in doing that, too bad I cannot reveal it here without spoiling too much, but I'm sure you'll feel the same.
Without being irrespectful, this story could have been written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; it represents perfectly a distant (or not so distant?) future and the struggle for freedom, not physical freedom, but the freedom to express oneself in one of the most suitable ways to human beings: writing.
While reading on my Kindle I found myself thinking how there was a bit of irony in doing that, too bad I cannot reveal it here without spoiling too much, but I'm sure you'll feel the same.
June 8, 2013
A really good middle book in a series of three. I especially like the way the ending drew me in and then yanked the rug out from under me, leaving me compelled to read the third book.
There is now an omnibus edition containing all three of the stories: Refuse, Resist, and Renew. I would recommend that edition since the three books are connected and, unlike WOOL, where you could just end it after the first book (although most, like me, don't) you'll need (and want) to read this and the third if you read the first.
There is now an omnibus edition containing all three of the stories: Refuse, Resist, and Renew. I would recommend that edition since the three books are connected and, unlike WOOL, where you could just end it after the first book (although most, like me, don't) you'll need (and want) to read this and the third if you read the first.
November 17, 2013
Where Refuse started slowly, Resist has amped it up. Much more meaty and enticing. Love the historical literary references, the love affair with words endeared by those who keep the books from going extinct and the explicit horror of such a world that would criminalize those precious book preservationists -- stirs distinct memories of Ray Bradbury's Farenheit 451. Ends with a great cliffhanger -- got to have more.....
May 24, 2014
Excellent! Michael, you have an amazing style of story telling.
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