It was around 2009 or so that I found myself working in a college bookstore, and I noticed more and more people walking around staring at their phones. The initial germ of an idea had come a year or two earlier. How did you first come up with the idea for the Wool series? What was your inspiration? Howey was kind enough to do an interview with me, where he talks about Wool, Waterworld, Wayfinding, and his favorite post-apocalyptic media (of course!). Or you can wait until (probably) 2023 for the show (which will star Rebecca Ferguson and Tim Robbins). I was lucky enough to read Wool in 2021 (as well as the sequels Shift and Dust) and loved them, so if you haven’t read them yet, they will please anyone who is a fan of the genre (they’re also available on audiobook, though only on Audible). Wool is unusual in that Howey managed to sell the print rights to Simon & Schuster (something that rarely happens to indie publishers). It follows the story of Jules, an engineer living in a self-contained silo-bunker in a post-apocalyptic Earth, and her journey to discover why they can’t go outside. If you’re unaware, Wool began in 2011 as a self-published short story (also called “Wool”), which was later published together with four sequel novellas as a novel under the same name. Understandably, we at Post Apocalyptic Media are big fans of the post-apocalyptic Wool books and are waiting eagerly for the Apple+ series adaptation.
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