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“These buildings”—he pointed to what looked like large white cans sitting on the ground—“these are silos. They hold seed for the bad times. For until the times get good again.” He looked up at her. They were just a few feet apart, Juliette and him. She could see the wrinkles around his eyes, could see how much the beard concealed his age. “I’m not sure what you’re trying to say,” she told him. He pointed at her. Pointed at his own chest. “We are the seeds,” he said. “This is a silo. They put us
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The book begins with an amazing short story, but then it kind of trails off into a slow pattern before taking off again about half way through.
I was struck by something in my past, I was instantly teleported back to a book I read as a child called Z for Zachariah. The book has similar elements that touch on human psychology and the nature of the inner struggle of the inevitable motivations of our id as a collective. Silo tells a story about people in a post apocalyptic scenario who struggle to u ...more
I was struck by something in my past, I was instantly teleported back to a book I read as a child called Z for Zachariah. The book has similar elements that touch on human psychology and the nature of the inner struggle of the inevitable motivations of our id as a collective. Silo tells a story about people in a post apocalyptic scenario who struggle to u ...more
