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Now available in a stunning hardcover Deluxe Collector's Edition, Shift, the second book in the New York Times bestselling Silo trilogy, featuring fully illustrated endpapers, sprayed edges, and a poster on the inside of the jacket with a topographical map of the silos. Plus an original short story from Hugh Howey set in the Silo universe! SEASON 2 OF THE ACCLAIMED SILO SERIES -- BASED ON BOOK 1, WOOL --NOW ON APPLE TV+ In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platforms that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate. The technology has an almost limitless capacity for good--but in the wrong hands, it could have an equally boundless capacity for evil. In the same year, the CBS network re-aired a program about the effects of propranolol on sufferers of extreme trauma. A simple pill, it had been discovered, could wipe out the memory of any traumatic event. At almost the same moment in humanity's broad history, mankind discovered the means for bringing about its utter downfall, and the ability to forget it ever happened. With this godlike power at their fingertips, can humanity be trusted to create a new--and better--world? Or is it doomed to bring about its own destruction? THE STORY CONTINUES IN: DUST

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""Sci-fi's Underground Hit."" -- Wall Street Journal ""The anxiety, claustrophobia and lethargy [Howey] conjures are heartfelt."" -- The Guardian

""Sci-fi's Underground Hit."" - Wall Street Journal ""The anxiety, claustrophobia and lethargy [Howey] conjures are heartfelt."" - The Guardian

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Hugh Howey is the New York Times and USA Today bestsell-ing author of the Silo Series: Wool, Shift, and Dust; Beacon 23; Sand; Half Way Home; and Machine Learning. His works have been translated into more than forty languages and have sold millions of copies world-wide. Adapted from his bestselling sci-fi trilogy, Silo is now streaming on Apple TV+ and Beacon 23 is streaming on MGM+. Howey lives in New York with his wife, Shay.

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