Reading companions

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Chapter-by-chapter companions to Hugh Howey's Silo Saga, George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm, and three more dystopian classics. Clear summaries, character and place guides, key vocabulary and discussion questions, each written to be read alongside the book without spoiling what comes next.

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Hugh Howey · The Silo Saga

Book 1 · 83 chapters

Wool

A buried city, a blurry view of a dead-looking world, and a sheriff who asks to go outside.

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Book 2 · 103 chapters

Shift

Before the silos: how they came to be, and a man who wakes up inside one.

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Book 3 · 65 chapters

Dust

Two silos joined by a tunnel, and the hard question of what lies beyond the hills.

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Bonus · 9 sections

Silo Stories

Three short stories printed after Dust: In the Air, In the Mountain and In the Woods.

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George Orwell

Novel, 1949 · 25 chapters

1984

Winston Smith works for a Party that watches everyone and rewrites the past, and he starts to keep a secret diary.

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Novella, 1945 · 10 chapters

Animal Farm

The animals of Manor Farm drive out their owner and try to run the farm for themselves.

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Dystopian Classics

Novel, 1932 · 18 chapters

Brave New World

A future London where babies are made in bottles, everyone has a fixed place, and a drug keeps people content.

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Novel, 1953 · 12 sections

Fahrenheit 451

Guy Montag is a fireman whose job is to burn books, until a strange young neighbour makes him start asking questions.

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Novel, 1924 · 40 records

We

The diary of D-503, an engineer in a glass city where every hour is scheduled, written for a spaceship's voyage.

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