If you knowWool , then you ’re already reckon the days until Saturday . Hugh Howey ’s epic poem about the last oddment of humanity living in massive underground silos — and the horrifying verity of why they ’re there — has sell over one-half million copy online alone . The trilogy finally comes to a closethis August 17th , with the discharge of Dust . Here are nine Wool questions we desperately ask answered .
Note : If you have n’t read Wool or the second volume Shift , expect spoilers .
1 ) What is Juliet ’s programme ?
When we last saw Juliet , she had return to Silo 18 , inadvertently help bring down Bernard the promontory of IT , been elected city manager , and had spread the Bible not just that she lived after being sent on her Cleaning , but there were other silos and other people out there . When we last heard from Juliet , she had called the head of Silo 1 , Donald , and made a not - at - all subtle terror that she was going to lead an violation on the silo that had been control their lives for century . Is Juliet really planning an flack ? Does she be after on trying to get in touch with the other silos for support first ? Does Silo 1 have defenses that the other silo do n’t ? Given how far ahead Thurman and the World Order Operation Fifty ( W.O.O.L. , where the the Fifty is the Roman numeral “ L ” — W.O.O.F. does n’t have quite the same ring to it ) Maker cogitate , it seems likely they ’re protect in some mode that perhaps even Donald does n’t know about .
2 ) What will Donald do ?
Donald is pretty much the one person in all 50 silo who actually knows what ’s really happening , include who built the Silos and why , and as the head word of Silo 1 he ’s in explosive charge of pretty much everything , so he has some major decision to make . He hates the silo and the W.O.O.L. functioning completely , but he ’s still on the face of it is following The rules of order . He ’s emphatically against the Final Pact that will ruin every single silo except the ripe one ( let in Silo 1 ) , whose people will essentially re-start humanity , but when Juliet calls he ’s still really cagey or else of immediately teaming up with her to put an terminal to the tyranny of the silo . Also , while Donald seems to need as many people as potential to subsist , we ca n’t forget he murdered both Thurman and Thurman ’s girl Anna in revenge for do him complicit in the silo schema and split him from his wife Helen , respectively . Donald is not a well soul , and it ’s impossible to know how he ’ll manage Juliet ’s revolution . Can he number to a truce with Juliet ? Do either of them really want one ?
3 ) What ’s going to go horribly wrong ?
If there ’s one thing we ca n’t count on in Dust , is that things are go bad to get worse before they get better — way worse . Sure , the second volume Shift ended with Juliet in command of Silo 18 and Donald in control of Silo 18 , both of whom require to end the sSilo system . So you ’d think that they ’d quickly team up to figure out what ’s belong on outdoors , doctor it , and then depart rebuilding club . Except this is a series where the first two protagonists give-up the ghost quickly and brutally in the first two chapter . There is no way the cognitive process of surfacing will be prosperous or without bloodshed .
4 ) Will Solo and the kids of Silo 17 be deliver ?
One possibility for quick and effective tragedy ? If something happens to Solo and the kids of Silo 17 . Solo lived alone in the darken silo for 34 eld before Juliet goof in , at which point they discover a small household of youngster survivors huddle together ( and their situation is even more awful than Solo ’s ; let me put it this fashion — their parent had died long before they told their kids why they should n’t have sex with each other ) . Juliet promised she ’d return for them all , but she ’s spent many , many weeks in Silo 18 , recovering and then design . It seems that she ’s been maintain in middleman with Solo and the other over the radio , so they ’re not as alone as they had been antecedently , but I would n’t call them safe until they ’re all in spite of appearance Silo 18 with actual citizenry — and possibly not even then .
5 ) Will the other Silos be for or against them ?
One thing Juliet seems to usurp is that the other surviving silo will instantly overthrow their IT overlords and join in the fight . This is belike a error . Not just because each silo will have its own , extremely well - equip IT Department , who would rather ruin their silo before losing control , but because surely some silos will be so freak at the news that there are other people out there that they ’ll outright decide they ’re enemies . As horrible as Thurman ’s architectural plan was , he ’s not wrong about humans too - cursorily developing an us - vs.-them mentality — it ’s why the Final Pact says only one silo can make it at the end . I gravely doubt all silos will mirthfully join in Juliet ’s revolution , irrespective of what their IT departments say .
6 ) What happen to those 11 rogue silo ?
Some silos are an even bigger question crisscross than others — specifically , the 11 silos that Donald heat during his third shift to disclose had efficaciously gone dingy . It began with Silo 40 , which start out communicating with other silos first . Silo 1 tried to destruct Silo 40 , but the inhabitants had killed Silo 1 ’s tv camera feeds and destroyed the failsafes that earmark Silo 1 to destroy it , return it essentially dark to Silo 1 . Since then , 10 more silos — all close to 40 — have gone similarly quiet , and no one knows what happened , what they ’re be after , or why . We do know that someone at Silo 40 accidentally contacted the young Solo at Silo 17 , so whatever happened , its inhabitant are still alive , and waiting … for something .
7 ) What ’s the deal with alfresco ?
Perhaps the full-grown doubt in the series is just what happened — and what is still bump — outside . We have intercourse that before the silo incident , middling much everybody on the satellite had been infected with nanomachines that Thurman believed terrorist could and would one mean solar day use to wipe out all of America , if not the world . We know that Thurman bombed the domain to drive people into the silos in the beginning , which presumably included most of Atlanta , since its ruins are visible to the Cleaners . We roll in the hay that Thurman spark off the nanomachines to wipe out everyone on the planet except the silo inhabitants . We know whatever Thurman did it included “ resetting ” the planet , but whether that ’s metaphoric , or part of the nanomachine thing , or something else wholly is unknown . We also know that the area outside the silo is definitely poisonous and deadly for those without severe security . What did Thurman really do ? What is killing the mass who venture outside ? And most significantly , can’it be reversed ?
- Why could Donald and Thurman respire outdoors ?
And the biggest mystery of the outside ? Why Donald and Thurman and the other penis of Silo 1 could pass off outside . We know for a fact that the exterior is harmful to all the other silo residents — and it seems to have hurt Donald and Thurman a little , because Thurman returns from the airfoil with a epistaxis and when Donald wakes up for his third shift — since he ended his second shift by function outside in a fail suicide attempt — he begins cough up blood . Presumably the nanomachines that appropriate the indweller of Silo 1 to enter the deep freeze , so the same groups can superintend the entire Silo project over its 500 - twelvemonth process , protect them somehow . Is this the key to humanity ’s replication to the open ? And why did Thurman imply that the denizen of Silo 1 were no longer human ?
9 ) What ’s beyond the silos ?
In the end of Third Shift , Donald freed his drone pilot sister Charlene to pilot a radio-controlled aircraft to see what was beyond the 50 silos . What he establish were sorry skies and green earth , wholly unlike the hellscape of the silo region . Is this field habitable ? Is anyone still live out there ? Are their pockets of survivors who were somehow resistant to Thurman ’s nanomachine patch ? What about all the structures and engineering science and civilization ? The W.O.O.L. project was about readjust humanity , not only sociologically , but preventing them from building weapons like nanomachines as long as potential — surely Thurman had something planned for the rest of the reality . But what was it ? And what ’s out there now ?
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