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The original was posted on /r/siloseries by /u/nicolesuzanne on 2023-10-07 07:01:11.

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The original was posted on /r/siloseries by /u/rufio_rufio_roofeeO on 2023-10-02 20:22:53.

Finished the trilogy this morning, and I loved the series. Was brought by the show, and if books are this compelling I really need to start reading for enjoyment more. Was hoping for everything to get wrapped up a little neater- the pacing got so frantic by the end of Dust that the payoff wasn’t as gratifying as I’d hoped- but I am overall satisfied.

Still a few lingering questions though…

1. Silo 17 had good nanos that protected the survivors of its purge. There were enough to protect Juliette, even after 30+ years. When the 18-aanites poked through to silo 17, why didn’t the good nanos diffuse into 18 and protect some of the stragglers from annihilation by bad nanos? It would have been interesting for Juliette to have inadvertently saved the inhabitants of Silo 18 by proceeding with the Tunnel Drilling Policy against the wishes of many of her constituents.
2. So Thurman and his buddies successfully killed all the humans on the planet right? And then left a poisonous cloud over their little bit of real estate to keep from prematurely releasing his seeds all over Fulton County?
3. Was the Crow just some nobody? Mission’s storyline seems inconsequential. Initially I thought this story was after the events of Wool and that she might be old Juliette. Obviously not. But man that entire storyline is so bleak. I guess if Donald had terminated the silo at that point instead of retaking control then operation 50 still may have continued without obstruction?
4. Seriously NOTHING about Silo 40?! Howey mentioned it in the questions to the author after Wool. It was alluded to innumerable times in Shift and Dust. But we never get a glimpse of what happened with them? Even if they just mentioned that The Orchid (SEED) had been disturbed more recently than 250 years I’d be satisfied. Wtf man do they get out or not?

I enjoyed the ride from Holston back to Fulton County. I’m hearing there’s 3 more short stories that I’ll have to find. Any recommendations for similarly blockbusting bleak dystopian sci-fi books?

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The original was posted on /r/siloseries by /u/masterchiefgone on 2023-10-01 15:43:37.

I watched the first season and I loved it. Now I have Silo shaped hole. The books aren't available at my location and I hate e-books.

What are some silo alternatives? I played all three metro games, Fallout 3 (NV is next), what else? Any other tv shows?

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The original was posted on /r/siloseries by /u/phareous on 2023-09-29 16:47:10.

If you're a fan of Hugh Howey's work, a new show based on his Beacon 23 book will be coming to MGM+ on November 12. If you're interested, join our sister sub at /r/Beacon23

Here is Hugh's announcement:

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The original was posted on /r/siloseries by /u/-Badger2- on 2023-09-29 03:21:50.

In Shift, Jimmy describes a can of food as depicting "A large man with green flesh smiling at him from the label." That's the Jolly Green Giant, right? Not some food that was grown in the farms and packaged at supply.

Later on, these cans start to develop rust spots and he gets sick when he eats from them.

So these cans have been under Silo 17's server room for nearly 300 years at this point and they start rusting within a few years of Jimmy living there?

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The original was posted on /r/siloseries by /u/Halo909 on 2023-09-27 06:56:08.

I just finished the show tonight and I pleasantly surprised at the quality of the show. In the end, is the green pasture a hologram and fake and the nuked out city the real landscape? I don't understand why they would put a hologram of the green pasture but only for the people who walk out to clean.

My second question is, are there multiple Silo's? Is the Silo some sort of long term bunker to help save civilization after a nuclear war or something?

My third question is if this show is a single season show or if there is going to be multiple seasons.

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The original was posted on /r/siloseries by /u/insecuredane on 2023-09-27 09:59:37.

I just finished Wool by Hugh Howey, which is the first book in the Silo Saga. I watched the series three times (love it!) and so I was of course super interested in any differences between the book and the TV show. Please be aware that this post will contain spoilers from the book as well as the TV show. I have tried to keep spoilers to a minimum for stuff that has not yet happened in the TV show. So without further ado, here are the differences I personally find most interesting:

• In the TV series, Billings' name was changed from Peter Billings to Paul Billings. Maybe this was because Juliette's dad is also called Peter, and the TV show wanted to avoid double names?

• In the down deep, a mechanical by the name of Walker lives who never leaves their office. In the book this is a man, and in the TV series it's a woman.

• One of Juliette's good friends in the down deep is Shirley. In the book she's very much introduced as a wife and in the beginning mostly seen in connection to wifely duties (bringing her husband food, kissing him goodbye, etc.) whereas in the TV show she's not depicted as having a husband at all - developments on this front do happen in the book, but the introduction is very different between the two.

• In the book, the inhabitants of the Silo know about religion & some idea of 'God' which is never mentioned in the TV series. The presence of priests in the Silo is also mentioned.

• In the book, the inhabitants of the Silo have access to certain children's books from the before, as well as astrology (probably through books too). This means they know about topics they don't seem to know about in the show, e.g., the sun, comets, stars, certain animals like elephants, etc.

• In the books, Marnes hangs himself. In the TV series, he is murdered.

• In the TV show, Sims plays a much bigger role than in the book. He is barely seen in the book, even though his role is hinted at between the lines. He has very few spoken lines himself, if any.

Spoiler for something that might yet still happen in the show? Unsure, but thought it required an additional spoiler:

• In the book, Bernard picks Lukas to be his shadow, and Lukas is introduced to all the knowledge of IT. In the TV show, Lukas briefly helps Juliette and as a consequence is sent to 10 years in the mines. Even though there is eventually a fallout between Bernard and Lukas in the book, it ends very differently, and Lukas is never sent to the mines.

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The original was posted on /r/siloseries by /u/hughhowey on 2023-09-26 12:27:21.

If any of you Silo fans are gonna be at NYCC this year, I'm going to have a table in Artist Alley near the Barnes and Noble (Table 14, Hall 1B).

I'll have tons of books for sale and lots of behind-the-scenes photos that I can't share online but will have out in photo albums for your enjoyment. Also a couple of on-set memorabilia items that I pilfered.

Stop by and say hello, pick up a signed book, or have me sign a book you already own!

(I might even have a few pics from the set of season 2, but don't tell anyone)

Me and Rebecca on the set of Season 1

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The original was posted on /r/siloseries by /u/Dignifiedgiraffe on 2023-09-25 20:37:27.

In the books and the series I never got a good feel for how big the solo is supposed to be. (Maybe I missed it) They make it seem like climbing Everest or something. Does anyone have ideas about the dimensions?

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The original was posted on /r/siloseries by /u/eckmad on 2023-09-22 23:06:01.

I watched the TV series first, then listen to all three books via audio. One thing that I cannot seem to understand is how did they populate all 50 silos? We find out in book two that the people in that side of work in shifts, but they never really told us how they planted people in each silo to populate each one over the several hundred years this series explored. Anybody have any ideas?

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The original was posted on /r/siloseries by /u/jloong on 2023-09-23 18:56:36.

General question about mining, with spoilers for Dust and Neal Stephenson's Seveneves:

In mining/digging, you need a place to put the spoil and tailings (all the stuff you take out of the ground and the ore leftovers). You can't just put it back in the hole, since it takes up more space. (This is a plot point in Seveneves,limiting the size of the underground Digger civilization for a few thousand years because it's a sealed system and they don't have anywhere to put the spoil.)

In Dust, Howey specifically addresses (hangs a lampshade on) this in Chapter 7:

“If this thing moves, it’s gonna make a lot of dirt,” Bobby said. “Hauling the tailings from here to the crusher down in the mines is gonna make a mess and take as many men as the digging.” The thought of the crushing room where tailings were ground to powder and vented to the exhaust manifold stirred painful memories.

So in the silos, the miners vaporize the dirt and rocks and send it out an exhaust pipe.

Is this possible in real-life mining and just not done because it's not economical, or is this impossible?

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The original was posted on /r/siloseries by /u/Ozdiva on 2023-09-23 11:03:30.

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The original was posted on /r/siloseries by /u/mundaesey on 2023-09-21 00:29:37.

OPEN DISCUSSION ON ALL THREE BOOKS WELCOME IN COMMENTS, SO PLEASE BE AWARE BEFORE SCROLLING

This sub doesn’t allow polls but I am curious which book you guys liked best! For me I think it had to be Shift (even though I know a lot of people have mixed feelings on it) just because I feel like I got so many answers about all the big questions I had from Wool and it felt very satisfying and finally putting faces to the people in Silo 1 was cool. I feel like the story of Donald and his wife was heart wrenching, because I can’t imagine how confusing those emotions would be. Also the beginning of Jimmy’s story the day Silo 18 died was super interesting. Even though it was slow at times, Shift really stuck with me.

LMK in the comments which book you enjoyed best and what your favorite part of the book was.

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The original was posted on /r/siloseries by /u/Cantomic66 on 2023-09-20 11:25:04.

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The original was posted on /r/siloseries by /u/ido_ks on 2023-09-20 09:08:45.

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The original was posted on /r/siloseries by /u/spicynicho on 2023-09-20 00:44:13.

I just finished book 2.

Frankly, I didn't enjoy it. I don't know if it's bad writing or a lack of investment on my part but I felt like I was the only one who didn't know what was going on.

Eg, "suddenly Donald knew.. he understood. The truth. Of course, it was so obvious now. He nodded to someone, they understood too."

Well mate I've got no idea what's going on and this shit got tedious quick smart.

Should I continue with book 3? Frankly I thought the "nano" thing was just a wasted plot point.

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The original was posted on /r/siloseries by /u/ImAnApe_ on 2023-09-20 04:11:56.

How come these humans have complex language as we have today and they don’t know what stars are ? Let alone the fact that they don’t know the word “star” ???? Someone please explain.

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The original was posted on /r/siloseries by /u/ulugs on 2023-09-19 16:41:11.

As I read the trilogy, it occurred to me that Juliette might be / should be a descendant of Helen Keene, Donald's wife. Was there any hint that this was the case? Did I miss it in the excitement?

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The original was posted on /r/siloseries by /u/eteeks on 2023-09-18 20:48:44.

I loved the series, it's been a long time since I've been taken into a world by a book series and needed to keep reading until it was done. Leaving the other Silos to keep Silo-ing was a tad frustrating end I suppose, but it was Donald who really annoyed me.

Maybe that was the intent or maybe he was just supposed to be a tragic character, I'm not sure. However, he just seemed to be continually dragged along and he never seemed to fight/push back, until he pretty much had nothing left. By the time he eventually did fight back, he did a good job killing an ally and a terrible one killing the only one he actually had to kill. I had given up hoping for him to have some back bone so when he finally did, all I could think was "what if you had done some of this sooner".

That was a very simplified version of how I felt about him but I just wondered how others felt about him?

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The original was posted on /r/siloseries by /u/Successful_Spot8906 on 2023-09-17 08:55:14.

So I just finished the series, and I want to continue with the books so bad. So should I start from the second book? Or did the show cut out so many things that I need to actually start over from the beginning?

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The original was posted on /r/siloseries by /u/macaronimafia on 2023-09-16 23:22:06.

I'm new to the Silo series so forgive me if this has been asked before but I just started episode 7 and it appears there were cameras watching Juliette look at the book about Georgia. If that's the case and there's cameras how did they not catch Virginia hiding the book in her floor mat? Or catch Holsten hiding George's file in a vent for that matter? Doesn't make sense to me.

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The original was posted on /r/siloseries by /u/shadow_mist on 2023-09-16 23:24:50.

Fantastic series I loved it all after watching S1 of the show.

I have two questions that I can’t seem to shake.

1. It’s clear that Solo and others in 17 survived because Anna switched the gas lines to inject good nano bots into 17 when silo 1 hit the kill switch. What I don’t then understand, is why so many died in the cafeteria area.

Based on Thurman explanations to Donald the good bots fight the bad bots, which is why Thurman could go outside with no suit and come back with no issues (though he needed treatments of good nanos to win that “war within his body”)

Anyhow, it does not make sense to me that so many would have died right then and there, if the lines were switched and it was all good nanos. You’d think the dose of the good nanos newly released by Anna would outweigh the remaining bad nanos in the dust bowl of the outside. Perhaps the bad nanos would still win, but it seems far outside the story guidelines set up that they would all die so instantly…. Yet then the good nanos are so powerful that the bodies will then be preserved? Plus, in Shift when Solo kills people in IT their bodies are not preserved and he comments on them being nothing but bones years later. Just seems like no basis whether the nanos do things or not and it’s just based on convenience ….What am I missing?

2. The mechanism of the water drugging people into forgetting. I don’t follow how you can forget so much including your own name, when the drug was described to help forget traumatic events. More specifically, though, I do not understand how Charlotte has no effect from the water she is drinking. I know, you’ll all say that she is “immune” just like Donald is from her drugs that Donald had taken. Fair point, except it doesn’t track. Donald thought he was Troy for months, and clearly did not remember himself. How could Charlotte come out and have perfectly preserved memories?

Ultimately I know the water and the nanos are kind of convenient plot devices used to move the true story forward, but the author seems pretty detailed I was surprised to be left with these big questions. (Was also really hopeful to be introduced directly to Silo 40 and see what was going on over there!)

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The original was posted on /r/siloseries by /u/AdamPD1980 on 2023-09-15 01:05:22.

Was there ever any hint in the show as to who or what "Glasshouse" was?

There's two cleaning videos on the hard drive, Jane Carmody Cleaning (Sep 13th, Year 97) and also a GLASSHOUSE CLEANING (Sep 14th, Year 97).

The Jane file is some 837Mb in size, whereas the Glasshouse one is only showing as 5Mb

Also did anyone else notice when Allison moves her hand towards the screen to point at the file, her fingers get overlaid with the green colour of the screen? I'm guessing CGI/Green screen? issue

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The original was posted on /r/siloseries by /u/ELRIIC on 2023-09-14 14:25:59.

We see in the show that the Silo is Silo 18, and the IT guy had the key 18, and there was the drive 18 that we follow through the season.

The drive gave the impression that it was part of the ‘starter pack for running the Silo’. Key + Drive + Whatever else. Super important information inside, useful to run the Silo.

How did that drive got lost and ended up in the wild? How did it landed to George, and why it wasn’t a bigger hunt/mention for it before it reached Nicoles?

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The original was posted on /r/siloseries by /u/CorrectSupermarket93 on 2023-09-14 05:33:37.