Hugh howey
Hugh Howey is an American author, known primarily for his saga Mirage —Wool, by its original title in English. His favorite genre, and the one that frames most of his work, is science fiction. Since he was very young, Howey had two very well-defined dreams: the first was to write a novel, the second was to sail around the world.
Hugh Howey started writing Mirage in 2011, in pursuit of his dreams. At first, it was just a small story run. A little later, he decided to expand the series to five more stories, which he self-published through Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing system.
Biography
Hugh Howey was born in 1975, in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. The author grew up in Monroe, where He held various jobs before becoming a professional writer. During his early years he worked as a yacht captain, bookseller, sound technician and roofer. Subsequently —after his first publications on Amazon— the popularity of the writer grew thanks, to a large extent, to the comments of readers and users on the Internet.
Amazon recommendations also helped position the author. All these details achieved that, in a matter of months, Hugh Howey was part of the list of best-seller books of the USA Today and New York Times. Inspired by the success associated with his early stories, Howey further developed the universe he had designed for his work., which enjoys an attractive complexity.
In order to continue selling your titles in electronic format exclusively, Hugh Howey signed a contract with Simon and Schuster, who would be in charge of distributing Mirage to book retailers throughout the United States and Canada. This event, which occurred in 2012, coincided with the sale of the rights for a film adaptation of the work, which became the property of 20th Century Fox.
A year later, Hugh Howey's novel had a Spanish translation, carried out by Manuel Mata Álvarez Santullano. Mirage It was launched on the market thanks to the publisher Minotauro. In addition to Spanish, the work has been translated into approximately forty languages. The concept of the novel does not present a great novelty, but for academics it has been extremely interesting to examine its social and political implications.
There is no doubt that, to talk about Hugh Howey, it is necessary to talk about the title that launched him to fame. Mirage is a dystopia that reflects a break between the administrative system and the operating system of a State formed because of a disaster. When the government becomes oppressive and inhibitory to the freedom of civilians, leaving the environment that helped them survive in the past becomes the only alternative, despite the implications.
Works by Hugh Howey
Throughout his career, Hugh Howey has written multiple sagas, series, novels, anthologies and children's books.. Most of its titles move within the science fiction, in which topics such as survival, community and the moral constitution of the human being are addressed. Some of the most prominent are the following:
Novels
- Half Way Home (2010);
- The Hurricane (2011);
- I, Zombies (2012);
- The Shell Collector (2014)
Silo Chronicles
- Mirage (2011);
- Mirage: Calibration (2011);
- Mirage: Expulsion (2011);
- Mirage: Resolution (2011);
- Mirage: The Forsaken (2012);
- Bleakness (2012);
- vestiges (2013)
The Bern Saga
- Molly Fyde and the Parsona Rescue (2009);
- Molly Fyde and the Land of Light (2010);
- Molly Fyde and the Blood of Billions (2010);
- Molly Fyde and the Fight for Peace (2010);
- Molly Fyde and the Darkness Deep (TBA).
sand series
- The Belt of the Buried Gods (2013);
- Out of No Man's Land (2013);
- Return to Danvar (2013);
- Thunder Due East (2013);
- A Rap Upon Heaven's Gate (2014)
Beacon series
- Beacon 23: Part One: Little Noises (2015);
- Beacon 23: Part Two: Pet Rocks (2015);
- Beacon 23: Part Three: Bounty (2015);
- Beacon 23: Part Four: Company (2015);
- Beacon 23: Part Five: Visitor (2015)
stories
- The Plagiarist (2011);
- The Walk Up Nameless Ridge (2012);
- Promises of London (2014);
- Glitch (2014);
- Second Suicide (2014);
- The Box (2015);
- Machine Learning (2017)
collectors editions
- Wool Omnibus Edition (Wool 1-5) (2012);
- Shift Omnibus Edition (shift 1-3) (2013);
- Sand Omnibus Edition (sand 1-5) (2014);
- The Wool Trilogy (2014);
- Beacon 23: The Complete Novel (2015)
Children's books
- Misty: The Proud Cloud (2014)
Argument from Silo Chronicles, the most outstanding work of Hugh Howey
After a planetary disaster, the earth's air becomes noxious and unbreathable. This causes human life as it is known to change completely. The men who survive the initial chaos are forced to take shelter in a gigantic silo. Each of these coffers consists of three levels and forty-eight floors, respectively. The main level houses the surveillance and security offices, in addition to those arranged for the government.
On the middle floor are the majority of workers, such as merchants, IT area operatives and other sections. The lower level provides habitat for the oil and mineral extraction machinery, and the mechanical and supply departments. The interpersonal relationships between the inhabitants of the silos are based on the role that each one fulfills in their delicate society. Hierarchy is everything, and no area can be mixed with the others.
In this context, an interesting metaphor is presented that reveals how class and caste systems are formed from social manipulation, the malaise and revolts by those who rebel against the imposed system. Amid the political dissonance, Sheriff Holston, one of the protagonists of the novel, asks to go abroad, that is, breaks the taboo and demands something that endangers the hierarchy.