by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpt from my private journals:
04/07/10 7:02 PM
Damnit. I screwed up that transcription.
Starfleet Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge - Starfleet USS Enterprise NCC 1701-E Chief Engineer: Oh, yeah! It's marble, about 20 meters tall, and you're looking up at the sky and your hand's sort of reaching toward the future.
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From 11/10/1967 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Metamorphosis" ) To 4/14/2012 ( ) is 16227 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/7/2010 ( ) is 16227 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silo_(series)
Silo (series)
From Wikipedia
Works
Wool (July 30, 2011)
Wool: Proper Gauge (November 30, 2011)
Wool: Casting Off (December 11, 2011)
Wool: The Unraveling (December 26, 2011)
Wool: The Stranded (January 25, 2012)
First Shift — Legacy (April 14, 2012)
Second Shift — Order (November 12, 2012)
Third Shift — Pact (January 24, 2013)
Dust (August 17, 2013)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silo_(series)
Silo (series)
From Wikipedia
Silo is a series of post-apocalyptic science fiction books by American writer Hugh Howey. The series started in 2011 with the short story "Wool", which was later published together with four sequel novellas as a novel with the same name. Along with Wool, the series consists of Shift, Dust
The story of Wool takes place on a post-apocalyptic Earth. Humanity clings to survival in the Silo, a self-sustaining subterranean city with 144 floors. No records of the time before the Silo remain. All residents of the Silo are taught that the outside world is toxic and deadly, and the Silo's cardinal rule is that anyone who expresses a desire to go outside must be sent there to clean the external sensors with a wool cloth. Those sent outdoors invariably clean the sensors as instructed, but die within minutes, reaffirming to the Silo residents that the outside is uninhabitable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silo_(series)
Silo (series)
From Wikipedia
Shift
Shift is the second arc of the series, and consists of books 6 through 8: Legacy, Order, and Pact. It is a prequel to the Wool arc.
In 2049, freshman Congressman Donald Keene is recruited by Senator Paul Thurman for the CAD-FAC (Containment and Disposal Facility) project, ostensibly an underground repository for the world's nuclear waste to be constructed in Fulton County, Georgia. Donald, who has an education in architecture, is tasked with designing a self-sustaining shelter, a Silo, that will be built near the CAD-FAC for facility workers to use during emergencies.
In 2052, the CAD-FAC is completed and the site above it hosts the Democratic National Convention. Donald and Thurman are present for the opening ceremonies when a nuclear blast destroys Atlanta, and they and other attendees are ushered into the CAD-FAC. Thurman reveals that CAD-FAC was a cover for World Order Operation Fifty (W.O.O.L.), an initiative to preserve humanity in the event the species was threatened with extinction. Nuclear detonations have scourged the Earth's surface, and it will not be safe to resettle it for 500 years.
The shelter consists of 50 total Silos. They are managed by Silo 1, which houses Operation Fifty co-leaders Thurman, Erskine, and Victor, and other key personnel such as Donald. While 49 Silos have generational populations, Silo 1's inhabitants are cycled in and out of cryogenic stasis every few decades to work six-month shifts guiding Operation Fifty through the centuries. The other Silos suffer internal rebellions of varying intensity every couple decades. Major rebellions are treated with "resetting": the population is reduced, the remaining residents are given amnesia-inducing medication, and the computers are wiped.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naOzftxOKig
Just What I Needed
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- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 3:50 PM Pacific-timezone USA Monday 04/27/2026
