

These questions are all heretical within the society of the silo, and the rules are ruthlessly enforced by a small leadership class with varying degrees of political legitimacy. Juliette, the protagonist, (reportedly to be played by Rebecca Ferguson in the television series) questions why some people are banished from the silo, what really happens to them when they are forced outside, and why they are all in the silo in the first place.


Related: These are the top military movies to watch for in 2023 The main dramatic developments then develop from the breakdown of that society. Howey uses the milieu of humanity forced into a silo in a post-apocalyptic dystopia to explore how it is that humans organize themselves into a functioning society. If it sounds like a book about politics and the human condition, it absolutely is. Howey explores all of these questions in the first book, as well as what happens when free-thinking Juliette (the heroine of Wool) takes it upon herself to question just about everything underpinning the silo’s socio-political framework.
