Hugh Howey's Blog, page 103

Boing Boing – And I'm Bouncing

I had a very gushing mention on Boing Boing's podcast yesterday. The entire chat is worth a listen, but if you want to hear the WOOL bits over and over, check the 20:00 spot. The show's guest goes on and on about WOOL. Very cool. http://boingboing.net/2012/02/14/gwee... Also: I'm bouncing in a couple of days. Off [...]

I, Zombie – Chapter 2

2  • Jennifer Shaw A grist of bees. A bevy of deer. A mob of— What was a mob again? Yaks? Emus. It was emus, Jennifer decided. But what animal made up a gang? Or a boil? Wasn't there some creature that combined to form a bloat? Bloat was taken, she was pretty sure. Jennifer [...]

George R. R. Martin and crippling self-doubt.

I have yet to read any of the great books by George R. R. Martin. Nor any of the shitty ones, apparently. I have read a ton of reviews for A Dance With Dragons, his fifth book. The book mostly interested me because it shows up in science fiction, my domain. But it clearly isn't [...]

The Scar Above My Eye

When I was five, seat belts were optional. Heck, children safety seats were optional. Kids crawled through moving vehicles like they were portable playgrounds: Over the backs of seats we went, bouncing and laughing, trading places and squealing, parents yelling at us to sit still while they adjusted rearview mirrors. In the years of my [...]

Check this out.

Not a silo, but an inverse-pyramid. Are they really going to build this thing? Looks amazing. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/artic... Two videos my wife found. Sorry for how they overlap the side panel:

Apocalypse fans, there's a group for you!

And no, it's not a therapy group for people with paranoid schizophrenia, or anything like that. It's a GoodReads group called Apocalypse Whenever! I know some of you have had troubles with my forums, and you're dying to discuss the WOOL series. Well, until I straighten things out, this is a great place to discuss [...]

The first chapter of the next silo story

I'm dying to throw the rough draft of the first chapter up here. Would that be bad form? And it's still looking like late March before it's ready.

More signed copies in the post

If you ordered a signed copy over the weekend, it went into the mail today. The guys at the post office now know me by name. I almost couldn't carry everything in a single load. I've changed one thing with the signed copies. There's now a link above each book once you go to the [...]

WOOL Shirts! (not made with real wool)

I've only got a few designs up so far, but rest assured that more are coming: http://www.cafepress.com/wool1 A few notes about the shirts: #1: I don't make a penny from these. I chose the lowest price CafePress would allow, which is the cost of the shirt plus printing. #2: There's printing on the back of [...]

Fan E-Mail #1

Okay, not really my first piece of fan e-mail, but the first that I'm posting. If you kids dig the feature, I'll post some more. And yeah, I'm getting permission to do this, and I'll do the same in the future. ________________________________ Hugh Howey! My name is CENSORED and I'm currently deployed onboard USS The [...]