Was that an easy decision to make?Ībsolutely. You have opened the Silo Saga series up to Amazon’s Kindle World’s fan fiction program. There’s no better way to limber up in the morning than by reading a few sonnets. GULLIVER’S TRAVELS, TREASURE ISLAND, THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO. As for favorite classics, I like the old adventure stories. Do you have any favorite “classics”? Do you think Dickens and Austen are still relevant in this age of Kindle singles and self-publishing?Ībsolutely! Dickens would be publishing in the Kindle Serials program if he was around today. And nobody can control word of mouth, which is why publishing is becoming more and more egalitarian. Word of mouth is everything, however you publish. More and more, those are becoming a mix of self and traditionally published books. I read whatever my friends tell me I “must” read. Do you consciously choose to read self-published books over traditionally published ones? As for what got me into writing, ENDER’S GAME and were early reads that made me aspire to create stories of my own.ĥ. It grew into a story about the need to spend fewer resources blowing each other up and more resources exploring other worlds. WOOL started off as an investigation of what 24-hour news does to our hope for humanity and our view of the world beyond our immediate horizon. I think this series came more from current events and from watching the world around me than they came from other books. What books inspired the Silo Saga series? Was there any single book that made you want to become a writer? I think it serves writers well to study the story and the telling and try to improve at both. On the other hand, you can have the finest prose in existence and no story, and no one will read it. This leads to what Simmons might call “trash” that sells very, very well. You can tell a great story poorly, and people will gobble it up. Of the two, the story is far more important. Writing is about two things: plot and prose. I’m able to do this because I think I would classify a lot of what Simmons would deem “trash” to be classics. King says “Read everything, from classics to trash” (paraphrasing) while Simmons says that writers should read only the very best writing Tolstoy, Dickens and le Guin. Authors Dan Simmons and Stephen King have different philosophies when it comes to reading choices. By signing up you agree to our terms of use 3. Once he took the helmet off, he realizes that they had not been lied to and that leaving the silo was a grave mistake.Thank you for signing up! Keep an eye on your inbox. Holston believed that Allison was right in thinking that the world wasn't really poisoned and that a beautiful landscape awaited them above. Both Holston's and Allison's visors on their suits were manipulated to show them a pleasant, verdant outside world, but this was in fact a deception. The world is also truly hostile and post-apocalyptic as it is shown through the main surface-level camera. This is because the suits that are meant to protect them from hazardous toxins actually do not protect them at all, which allows the poisonous air to be breathed even by those who keep their suits on. When people are sent out to clean the camera at the silo's surface, they are only able to survive for a few moments before ultimately suffocating and dying from the poisonous air. The inhabitants of the silo are made to believe that the world outside the silo is deadly and poisonous, which is actually true.
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