Sand: Omnibus Edition
Feb 2014 · Random House
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A powerful post-apocalyptic thriller from the internationally bestselling author of the Silo trilogy.
The old world is buried. A new one has been forged atop the shifting dunes. Here in this land of howling wind and infernal sand, four siblings find themselves scattered and lost.
Palmer has never been the same since his father walked out twelve years ago. His elder sister, Vic, is trying to run away from the past; his younger brothers, Connor and Rob, are risking their lives to embrace it. His mother, left with nothing but anger, is just trying to forget.
Palmer wants to prove his worth, not only to his family, but to himself. And in the barren, dune-covered landscape of his home, there is only one way to earn respect: sand-diving. Plunging deep below the desert floor in search of relics and scraps of the old world. He is about to embark on the most dangerous dive of his young life, aiming to become the first to discover the rumoured city below.
Deep within the sand lies the key to bringing his family together - and tearing their world apart.
The old world is buried. A new one has been forged atop the shifting dunes. Here in this land of howling wind and infernal sand, four siblings find themselves scattered and lost.
Palmer has never been the same since his father walked out twelve years ago. His elder sister, Vic, is trying to run away from the past; his younger brothers, Connor and Rob, are risking their lives to embrace it. His mother, left with nothing but anger, is just trying to forget.
Palmer wants to prove his worth, not only to his family, but to himself. And in the barren, dune-covered landscape of his home, there is only one way to earn respect: sand-diving. Plunging deep below the desert floor in search of relics and scraps of the old world. He is about to embark on the most dangerous dive of his young life, aiming to become the first to discover the rumoured city below.
Deep within the sand lies the key to bringing his family together - and tearing their world apart.
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4.2
99 reviews
Stevie Parmentier
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18 June 2017
Sand feels like half a book, with the second half being the part that makes it work ... except it doesn't exist. I mildly enjoyed reading it but there's a lack of truly memorable scenes and the main story is too weak to really be engaging. As another review accurately stated: it feels like this book was a build up to another book. If someone told me this was a prequel, I would believe it. Wool really played on the imagination but this book fails to draw you in. Who the people in the east are, what happened to the world, etc. None of the big questions get answered.
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Kevin Ure
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11 April 2014
Good book, doesn't quite match his wool novels but has a good range of interesting characters. Keeps you reading till the end and leaves you wanting more.
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Mark Norman
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26 January 2015
Wool = 10 out of 10 Shift = 9 out of 10 Dust = 8 out of 10 Sand = 7 out of 10 There's a trend developing here.
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About the author
Hugh Howey spent eight years living on boats and working as a yacht captain for the rich and famous. It wasn't until the love of his life carried him away from these vagabond ways that he began to pursue literary adventures, rather than literal ones.
Hugh wrote and self-published the Wool trilogy, which won rave reviews and praise from readers, and whose three books have gone on to become international bestsellers.
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