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Sand
by Hugh Howey
After all I'd heard about Howey's Silo series, I thought I'd finally crack open one of them-- but decided at the last second to grab Sand instead. Suffice to say, Sand was such an perfect read for me that I'm currently burning through the Shift Omnibus.
Sand is a book that is never content to let you know everything, even when you get a peeking glimpse of the bigger picture; the point of view shifts around more than you would expect, and by the end of the book you'll wonder who the main character really was or for whom that right was most deserved. The technology in the book is immensely interesting as well-- the concept of wetsuits that will never get wet but instead can move sand around them, called divesuits, enable most of the plot of the book's first half, and while exactly how they work is never fully disclosed, you'll still wonder what it would be like to dive beneath the sands.
This incredible technological achievement is juxtaposed with an unforgiving landscape devoid of anything else remotely futuristic, resembling an immense desert that only eventually reveals itself to be a familiar landscape, inhabited by people whose treasures are all simple relics from a more prosperous time. To say any more would be to spoil one of the most engaging moments of the book, but if you're anything like me, you'll figure out what's going on long before the first deep, breathless dive.
IF YOU LIKE: desert wastelands, Fallout, Mad Max, wandering nomads, reluctant heroes coming of age, and/or very grounded Sci-Fi.
IF YOU DISLIKE: Descriptions of claustrophobic situations-- seriously.
Sand is a book that is never content to let you know everything, even when you get a peeking glimpse of the bigger picture; the point of view shifts around more than you would expect, and by the end of the book you'll wonder who the main character really was or for whom that right was most deserved. The technology in the book is immensely interesting as well-- the concept of wetsuits that will never get wet but instead can move sand around them, called divesuits, enable most of the plot of the book's first half, and while exactly how they work is never fully disclosed, you'll still wonder what it would be like to dive beneath the sands.
This incredible technological achievement is juxtaposed with an unforgiving landscape devoid of anything else remotely futuristic, resembling an immense desert that only eventually reveals itself to be a familiar landscape, inhabited by people whose treasures are all simple relics from a more prosperous time. To say any more would be to spoil one of the most engaging moments of the book, but if you're anything like me, you'll figure out what's going on long before the first deep, breathless dive.
IF YOU LIKE: desert wastelands, Fallout, Mad Max, wandering nomads, reluctant heroes coming of age, and/or very grounded Sci-Fi.
IF YOU DISLIKE: Descriptions of claustrophobic situations-- seriously.