Shift

Hugh Howey

Mar 2023 · Blackstone Publishing · Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini

About this audiobook

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The second volume in the New York Times bestselling Silo series. Hugh Howey goes back to show the first days of the Silo, and the beginning of the end.

In 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.

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.

Ratings and reviews

in short: yes, I would recommend reading it if you plan to finish all 3 books. The story is intriguing and it ties a lot together in the last book. That said....the internal dialogues that characters have with themselves in 'Shift' are repetitive and EXHAUSTING. I mean seriously...I understood how the character felt the first 3 times they explained it. I don't need it to be repeated 20 more times in long monologues over and over again. The book might be half as long if you cut out all that duplicate fluff. Aside from that, I liked the book

About the author

Hugh Howey is an American science fiction author known for his first adult novel, Wool.

Edoardo Ballerini, an American actor, director, film producer, and award–winning narrator. He has won several Audie Awards for best narration, including for 2019’s Best Male Narrator of the Year, and was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine in 2019. He has narrated over two hundred audiobooks, from classics to modern masters, from bestsellers to the inspirational, from Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners to spine-tingling series, and much more. In television and film, he is best known for his roles in The Sopranos, 24, I Shot Andy Warhol, Dinner Rush, and Romeo Must Die. He is also trained in theater and continues to do much work on stage.