Silo (Silo 1)

If the liars don't kill you, the truth will.

Centuries after the apocalypse, humanity survives on the edge, living in a vast underground silo. A silo whose builders not even the legends are quite sure of. Its only link to the outside world is a pixelated image transmitted by cameras on the surface: a boundless grey-brown wasteland strewn with corpses and bones all the way to the horizon.

But even this grim image slowly deteriorates because of the toxic winds that cloud the silo's cameras and kill anyone foolish enough to go outside. The only way to keep this fragile connection to the outside world is to send someone to clean the sensors. This is also the harshest punishment for lawbreakers. And for dreamers...

And although all the convicts threaten that they will not do it, in the end they devote their last moments to this mission. Why do they do it? Holston, the sheriff of the silo, has always asked himself this question. And now he is about to learn the answer.

Hugh Howey is an American science fiction author. His books have been translated into more than 40 languages and published in multi-thousand print runs around the world. The series "Silo" on Apple Tv is based on the first part of the eponymous trilogy.

The cover artist is PhilipConkin