{"product_id":"shift-book-two-of-the-silo-series-9780544839649","title":"Shift: Book Two of the Silo Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNOW A SERIES ON APPLE TV+ THAT STEPHEN KING CALLS \"MYSTERIOUS AND TERRIFICALLY SUSPENSEFUL.... EXCELLENT SCIENCE FICTION WITH THREE-DIMENSIONAL CHARACTERS.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn this second volume in the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003ebest-selling Silo series, Hugh Howey describes the catastrophic events that led to the creation of the silo-- and the beginning of the end\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. The technology has an almost limitless capacity for good--but in the wrong hands, it could have an equally boundless capacity for evil.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 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. With this godlike power at their fingertips, can humanity be trusted to create a new--and better--world? Or is it doomed to bring about its own destruction?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHowey, Hugh:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eHUGH HOWEY is the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eWool, Shift, Dust, Beacon 23, Sand\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMachine Learning\u003c\/i\u003e. His works have been translated into more than forty languages and have sold more than three million copies worldwide. \u003ci\u003eWool\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBeacon 23 \u003c\/i\u003eare currently in development for television at AMC, and\u003ci\u003e Sand\u003c\/i\u003e is in development at Amazon\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003eWhen Hugh is not aboard the Wayfinder, a fifty-foot catamaran that he is sails around the world, he is based in New York.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Morrow \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50573916635410,"sku":"9780544839649","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_465689e7-2c02-40cb-8c22-2fe0f04c2159.jpg?v=1731971519","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/shift-book-two-of-the-silo-series-9780544839649","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}