Shift Deluxe Collector's Edition: Book Two of the Silo Series (Silo, 2)

ISBN: 0063432781

Author: Howey, Hugh

Condition: New

Now available in a stunning hardcover Deluxe Collector?s Edition, Shift, the second book in the New York Times bestselling Silo trilogy, featuring fully illustrated endpapers, sprayed edges, and a poster on the inside of the jacket with a topographical map of the silos. Plus an original short story from Hugh Howey set in the Silo universe!SEASON 2 OF THE ACCLAIMED SILO SERIES - BASED ON BOOK 1, WOOL -NOW ON APPLE TV 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platforms that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate. The technology has an almost limitless capacity for good-but in the wrong hands, it could have an equally boundless capacity for evil.In the same year, the CBS network re-aired a program about the effects of propranolol on sufferers of extreme trauma. A simple pill, it had been discovered, could wipe out the memory of any traumatic event.At almost the same moment in humanity?s broad history, mankind discovered the means for bringing about its utter downfall, and the ability to forget it ever happened. With this godlike power at their fingertips, can humanity be trusted to create a new-and better-world? Or is it doomed to bring about its own destruction?THE STORY CONTINUES IN:DUST