![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What it has in common is a lean narrative and concise style, although the five novellas collected together in the omnibus are far longer than Anthem. Wool immediately struck me as one successor to Rand’s Anthem, but with a less severe political bent, characters more like the regular people you and I know, and little reliance on metaphor. Alternate worlds are frequently the stuff of prog, but only on occasion are they expertly wrought in song. Rand’s most succinct novel, and to me her most powerful, coupled with Rush’s record, raised a fairly high bar. I think like a lot of us I first fell under this spell with Rush’s 2112, which I didn’t hear until several years after its release but, when I did, quickly turned to Ayn Rand’s Anthem for the text on which Neil Peart based some of his story. ![]() I just finished my Christmas reading, Hugh Howey’s Wool Omnibus, having bought it on special for $1.99 (for my Kindle) based on one of those Amazon emails: “CBreaden, here are books we think you might enjoy!” Always a leap of faith, going with this kind of marketing, but in a heat-haze brought on by recently finishing Joe Abercrombie’s Heroes and having nothing at hand I wanted to read, I took that leap.Ībout halfway through the collection of five novellas, I realized I needed to alert the prog world to it, thus uncovering my not-so-hidden geek love (limited as it may be) for sci-fi and prog rock’s connection to it. ![]()
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