Author Name-Hugh Howey

 

Who is he – Hugh C. Howey (born 1975) is an American writer, known best for the science fiction series Silo. Howey was raised in Monroe, North Carolina and before publishing his books, he worked as a yacht captain, roofer, and audio technician.Generally seen as the poster boy for self publishing and sometimes controversial promoter of Amazon.

Bibliography –

• Bern Saga
  • 1 Molly Fyde and the Parsona Rescue (2009)
  • 2 Molly Fyde and the Land of Light (2009)
  • 3 Molly Fyde and the Blood of Billions (2010)
  • 4 Molly Fyde and the Fight for Peace (2010)

 

• Hugh Howey TwinPacks
  • 1 The Walk Up Nameless Ridge / Beacon 23 (2015)
  • 2 Deep Blood Kettle / Second Suicide (2015)
  • 3 The Box / Glitch (2015)
  • 4 Peace in Amber / Promises of London (2015)
• Sand(Originally published in sections)
• Silo Series
  • 1 Wool (Originally published in sections)
  • 2 Shift (Originally published in sections)
  • 3 Dust

Standalone Novels

• Half Way Home (2010)
• I, Zombie (2012)
• The Shell Collector (2014)
• Beacon 23 (2015)

Anthology Series

• The Apocalypse Triptych
  • 1 The End Is Nigh (2014) with John Joseph Adams
  • 2 The End Is Now (2014) with John Joseph Adams
  • 3 The End Has Come (2015) with John Joseph Adams

Chapbooks

• The Plagiarist (2011)
• Glitch (2014)
• Second Suicide (2014)

Shortfiction

• The Plagiarist (2011)
• Mouth Breathers (2013)
• Shift (extract) (2013)
• Deep Blood Kettle (2013)
• Sand (excerpt) (2014)
• In the Air (2014)
• Executable (2014)
• Hell from the East (2014)
• Glitch (2014)
• Second Suicide (2014)
• In the Mountain (2014)
• Select Character (2015)
• In the Woods (2015)
• Gloria (2015)
• Beacon 23 (2015)
• The Walk Up Nameless Ridge (2015)
• Peace in Amber (2015)
• Promises of London (2015)
• The Box (2015)
• The Automated Ones (2015)

How did you come across them – A friend and blogger told me to check out this self published guy who was starting to make waves with a series of post apocalypse short stories. I picked up a couple of the Wool sections and was immediately hooked. Wool 1 , while short drew me in and I went on to buy he entire series in self published form before they were picked up by mainstream publishing.

What is your favorite work by them and why –

It has to be Wool. Its where I strated and the book, even in its episodic form reads so well and I just loved the various characters in it. I really enjoyed the Sand series as well, it has an interesting Mad Max vibe to it that works very well.

What is your favorite character – It has to be Juliette. Just ahead of Solo, who is a wonderous ball of innocence  a child in a mans body but Juliette carries the bookseries so well . She is a well written strong female lead and shes is a character that you find yourself rooting for in Wool and Dust

Something else interesting about the author –

Hugh was in a boat at ground zero for 9/11 , something he avoided talking or writing about  until he published a short story for a Kurt Vonnegut fan fic .

He has also self published pretty much all his work , even those that have been main steam published have come out in self published form first. Dust , the last of the Silo books was out for a matter of weeks in self published form, making it a rare (and exceptionally ugly covered affectionately known as the Ugly edition) collectors item.