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Love the Wool omnibus. Didn't know what to expect from this, but it's not a continuation of that story. It's set in another post-apocalyptic world (or perhaps the same one from Wool, but in a different region).
The midwest is now a desert. The story is centered on a futuristic Colorado, in which a lot of sand has covered up everything from our modern society. People scrape by on the surface. Sand divers have special suits to move through the sand, much like scuba divers through water, but these suits allow them to flow the sand around them as they dive, scavenging the buried world for anything that can be useful.
The story follows four siblings. The two eldest are divers. One, Palmer, is hired to find "Danvar", a mythical city lost beneath the sands. The eldest, Vic, has moved to a different city to escape her past (their mother runs a brothel). The third eldest, Connor, is left fending for the youngest. Years ago, their dad went east, across the waste, never to return. Connor, not allowed to dive (for reasons not explained), fed up with the hard life in the sand, plans to follow.
Events unfold, and we learn what happens to the people who go east (and why none have ever returned).
I'm a little confused about the "Lords" in the walled city of Springston. The story never takes us into the city, we just hear about the lords and their sandscrapers. Is this a remnant of our world, surviving above the sand? Is this something else? Why are they lords? Do they have some access to wealth and amenities in their city that the residents of Shantytown don't? Seems like the city is plunked in the middle of the sand, so it's not like they are growing crops or raising farm animals inside, so I can't figure out who they are and what part they play in this society.
Other than that, I thought the world building was well done. The plot was interesting, with POVs from 3 of the four siblings, plus later, their mother.
The midwest is now a desert. The story is centered on a futuristic Colorado, in which a lot of sand has covered up everything from our modern society. People scrape by on the surface. Sand divers have special suits to move through the sand, much like scuba divers through water, but these suits allow them to flow the sand around them as they dive, scavenging the buried world for anything that can be useful.
The story follows four siblings. The two eldest are divers. One, Palmer, is hired to find "Danvar", a mythical city lost beneath the sands. The eldest, Vic, has moved to a different city to escape her past (their mother runs a brothel). The third eldest, Connor, is left fending for the youngest. Years ago, their dad went east, across the waste, never to return. Connor, not allowed to dive (for reasons not explained), fed up with the hard life in the sand, plans to follow.
Events unfold, and we learn what happens to the people who go east (and why none have ever returned).
I'm a little confused about the "Lords" in the walled city of Springston. The story never takes us into the city, we just hear about the lords and their sandscrapers. Is this a remnant of our world, surviving above the sand? Is this something else? Why are they lords? Do they have some access to wealth and amenities in their city that the residents of Shantytown don't? Seems like the city is plunked in the middle of the sand, so it's not like they are growing crops or raising farm animals inside, so I can't figure out who they are and what part they play in this society.
Other than that, I thought the world building was well done. The plot was interesting, with POVs from 3 of the four siblings, plus later, their mother.