With Silo season 3 arriving on Apple TV, now is the perfect time to delve into Hugh Howey's books, the which are the inspiration behind the Rebecca Ferguson series.
Season 3 is set to diverge quite heavily from Shift, the second book in Howey's Wool trilogy, with showrunner Graham Yost recently opening up to Radio Times about the difficulties involved in adapting it.
He said: "The heaviest lifting we had to do was in this season, and then to an extent, in the final season. The first two seasons were the first book.
"The first half of the first book gets Juliette sent out to clean, and the second half is her in Silo 17 and the rebellion in 18. And so we followed that roughly. We did a bunch of switcheroos and stuff, but basically that.
"In Shift, the second book, Juliette doesn't appear until the final page, and I said, "Hugh, we're not doing that." And he's like, "Cool. I wanna see what you do."
There are certain twists in the book that simply cannot be translated to TV, so if you don't want to miss any of the story, here's what you need to know!
Howey first published short story Wool in 2011. It was later published as a novel with the same name and included four sequel novellas.
The author later published his novels Shift and Dust, and several short stories.
1. Wool
Wool, published in 2011, is the first novel in the series – and the starting point for fans wanting to read them all.
It consists of five books: Holston, Proper Gauge, Casting Off, The Unraveling and The Stranded.
The TV show covers a fair amount of the first novel, although there are some changes.
Howey previously told Radio Times: "Getting to show Holston and Juliette working together and having conversations, when I wrote the book, I wrote it in a serialised fashion. I didn't know there would be anything beyond the first 56 pages. The short story Wool was the whole thing.
"Not all the characters in that story make it to the end and there is some backstory alluded to, times that they overlapped with future characters, and that was all I could do at the time because I'd already published that first bit when the success of that story necessitated writing more.
"So having Juliette and Holston work together on a case is like two sentences in the novel, and here we get to tell it over episodes and, for me, that was such a thrill to be able to tell that part, and I think it's going to be huge fan service to the readers."
Buy Wool for £9.99 at Waterstones
undefined2. Shift
Shift, published in 2012, is the second instalment in the series. It consists of three books: Legacy, Order and Pact.
It serves as a prequel to Wool and shows how the silo was first constructed. However, it does then pick up with Juliette's story.
Season 3 of Silo is set to adapt Shift, with Juliette being more present in the TV show than in the book, as Yost confirmed.
Buy Shift for £9.99 at Waterstones
undefined3. Dust
Dust, published in 2013, is the third and final instalment, and consists of just the one book of the same name.
It concludes the story that started in Wool and continued in Shift.
Considering Silo will end after season 4, we're expecting to be able to see the whole of Howey's trilogy on screen.
He previously told Radio Times: "My sense is that if we try to tell all three books, the whole trilogy, that will probably take four seasons, possibly."
Teasing what's to come next, he added: "What I love about this series, the book series, and what we would do with the TV show if we get an opportunity, is it doesn't tell the same story over and over again. There's not a lot of repetition.
"The story gets bigger over time and you try to maintain the DNA in the heart of what makes the series fantastic, but there's new characters to introduce, and again, every time you think the mystery is solved, it just gets more intriguing.
"That's been the thrill of this show and the thrill of the books, and we have to get a chance to keep doing it."
Buy Dust for £9.99 at Waterstones
undefinedFuture Silo/Wool books
Plus, what started as a novella and then turned into a trilogy now looks set to evolve into another trilogy, as Howey confirmed during a Reddit AMA that he has plans for new books that follow the events in Silo 40.
He said: "I have another trilogy planned that follows Silo 40 from before the events of WOOL to after DUST. That silo was pivotal in how things played out in 17/18/01."
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