Juliette could have used the blast charges to go out and get revenge and kill. It was meant to highlight the dichotomy in the Bible of salvation or damnation. it appears to go off on some kind of strange tangent in the third book that doesn’t really add anything to the story or fit with how the silos are organized. The storyline surrounding religion is a little weak and not developed enough if you don’t mind me saying. The nanos were programmed to create a dome of death around the silos to prevent any silo from escaping early. The length of time spent underground was to ensure that no pocket of humanity anywhere else survived, and also to kill off the memories of those who might whisper across generations. This is all technically feasible and probably 100-200 years from being possible, btw. Planes would have plummeted from the sky, cars would have swerved and crashed, but the people at the national convention and every other living thing were perfectly okay. Only those inoculated (by visiting the nano treatment chambers) survived the day the nanos went off. Invisible bombs lie in every person’s bloodstream. All of mankind was infected over the years. The nanos were able to target based on species (the original threat was based on race, made by elements in the Middle East and Israel).
I was hoping this would be explained by the end of the book but I feel as though either I’ve missed some important hint in the story to resolve this or I’ve been left hanging which is weird and a bit frustrating. I don’t get this part of the story at all. How come the bad nanos did not pervade everywhere. If the world was destroyed, how come they are able to walk to a perfectly safe area just a short distance away. I don’t get why the devastation only occurs around the silo areas. He was destroying the place that could destroy the other places, leaving them to live their lives without threat or intrusion.ĥ. Donald knew how this worked, having done it once himself. Silo 1 collapsed, but the sequence to collapse other silos would have to have been engaged. Was this his intention? Am I right in this assumption? When Donald destroyed silo 1, wouldn’t this have caused the catastrophic failure of all the other silos? He was effectively killing mankind, not saving it. It’s questionable whether they would have survived the journey overland otherwise.Ĥ. Passing through Silo 17 gave everyone from 18 a dose of the stuff. It was why anyone (like Solo) survived there. Silo 17 received a massive dose of good nanos from Silo 1 (with Silo 40 assisting). She was very curious, but worse things were happening. Donald was an exception, as he joined just the day before. There were pockets of hysteria, but most of these people were prepped for this from the beginning. I’m curious as to why the women meekly agreed to be put to sleep, or did they offer some kind of resistance?Īlmost everyone was put to sleep, not just the women. No explanation was given as to what happened when they first went into the silos. However, some threads were left unexplained and I would be most grateful if you would be kind enough to answer the following questions so I can sleep at night!ġ. I have just finished reading the trilogy and thoroughly enjoyed the entire series.
Silo falls in wrong directions free#
Feel free to chime in with your own questions. What follows is a discussion about the thought processes I had while writing this series. There’s a great review and response on Amazon for A WALK UP NAMELESS RIDGE that captures some of this. Assembling a novel is like building a crossword for me. I have in mind the readers who might go back and revisit a text and catch all the foreshadowing and layers of meaning.
I have blogged about this before, but I should say again that I write primarily for myself and for the repeat offenders. And then yesterday, I received an email from a reader with a load of questions, and after firing off my responses, I thought they would make a good launching point to really dive into the trilogy. Most of the audience had only read WOOL, so I suggested we do something online at a later date. We had a Q&A session at a Boston event last weekend, and a reader wanted to know if they could ask questions about DUST.
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