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Hugh Howey

Дата рождения: June 23, 1975 – Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

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Hugh Howey is an American science-fiction author whose work explores dystopian futures, survival, and technology’s social consequences. He is best known for Wool, later expanded into the Silo series, as well as Beacon 23 and Sand. A breakout self-publishing success, his books have sold millions and been translated widely.

Биография и Путь Автора

Hugh Howey grew up in North Carolina in a household shaped by a farmer father, a schoolteacher mother, and his own early fascination with books, science, and sailing. The physical world around him mattered: farm silos, spiral staircases, boats, and engines later became part of his fictional vocabulary. At the College of Charleston he began as a physics major, later shifted toward English, and ultimately left without graduating as work at sea kept interrupting the conventional path. Before literary fame, he moved through practical jobs including computer repair, yacht work, audio-video installation, and bookselling, experiences that helped give his fiction its blend of mechanical realism, working-world detail, and wanderer’s perspective. ((https://hughhowey.com/about/))

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Цитаты

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Execution is everything
-Ideas and Execution
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But into every coffin goes an Alexandria
-Ideas and Execution
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These were unrealistic dreams. They were impossible dreams
-Let's Be Unrealistic
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I’ve always lived WAY below my means
-Who I Am
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One of my foundational rules would be that there could be no profit from suffering
-World Building
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Who owns the art? The discoverer? The machine? The original programmer?
-This is Only the Beginning
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His plagiarism isn’t the tragedy. It’s all the original works that go unwritten
-Everything is Metaphor
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Stubbornness is what allows me to write novels and sail across oceans
-My Routine
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Most moments slip by, barely noticed
-Attention is a Muscle

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"Hugh Howey's sales record has made New York publishing houses take notice"

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Charleston City Paper

"Hugh Howey, author of the Silo Saga, talks about making it big in self-publishing"

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