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1Drivingmenuts
Post apocalypse/scifi-fantasy: possibly YA -Likely written within the last 10 years
Think the cover had a silhouette of a teenage boy running from the top or lip of an underground silo or bunker
Story starts in an underground city – possibly an old silo type place. Somewhere people have gone to avoid some type of cataclysmic event, I think.
The main character is a young boy to begin with, and he has a little sister. They live in a small apartment type place with their mother. The mother (possibly a nurse?) and other mothers in charge of young children, avoid emotional relationships with their kids because they know the children will have to go to the main facility for allocation and training when they reach a certain age (about 7). The mothers usually never see the children again, so they try to maintain a distance to avoid heartbreak. I think the 'mothers' were allocated to certain men to meet a breeding type requirement.
Anyway, as decreed, the boy is escorted to the main facility by his mother at the appropriate time. The head of the silo city later turns out to be the MC’s son. During his training – where many of the children die in the process - the boy becomes close friends with another boy and girl from his group. As he gets older, the boy begins to question why they are all still in stuck in the city and starts learning and discovering what is really going on. He and his two friends eventually succeed in climbing out but the others stay behind to cover their tracks, while the boy continues to investigate the ‘outside.’ The boy eventually discovers a whole new world.
There was a multi dimension element too. I remember the main character finds a village (no technology used?) and makes friends, learns to hunt etc, but there's a baddy ‘overseer’ type element in the new world too. It takes a while for the MC to get back and get his friends out of the silo city, and then everyone else.
I can’t recall if it was a standalone or a short series.
Can anyone help?
Think the cover had a silhouette of a teenage boy running from the top or lip of an underground silo or bunker
Story starts in an underground city – possibly an old silo type place. Somewhere people have gone to avoid some type of cataclysmic event, I think.
The main character is a young boy to begin with, and he has a little sister. They live in a small apartment type place with their mother. The mother (possibly a nurse?) and other mothers in charge of young children, avoid emotional relationships with their kids because they know the children will have to go to the main facility for allocation and training when they reach a certain age (about 7). The mothers usually never see the children again, so they try to maintain a distance to avoid heartbreak. I think the 'mothers' were allocated to certain men to meet a breeding type requirement.
Anyway, as decreed, the boy is escorted to the main facility by his mother at the appropriate time. The head of the silo city later turns out to be the MC’s son. During his training – where many of the children die in the process - the boy becomes close friends with another boy and girl from his group. As he gets older, the boy begins to question why they are all still in stuck in the city and starts learning and discovering what is really going on. He and his two friends eventually succeed in climbing out but the others stay behind to cover their tracks, while the boy continues to investigate the ‘outside.’ The boy eventually discovers a whole new world.
There was a multi dimension element too. I remember the main character finds a village (no technology used?) and makes friends, learns to hunt etc, but there's a baddy ‘overseer’ type element in the new world too. It takes a while for the MC to get back and get his friends out of the silo city, and then everyone else.
I can’t recall if it was a standalone or a short series.
Can anyone help?
3Drivingmenuts
Thanks but not the one.
5Drivingmenuts
>4 bookel: Thanks so much but I've checked all the books you listed and I still can't match the one I'm after. Got some good 'want to read' ideas though :)
6Drivingmenuts
>2 Aquila: Thanks but not the one.
7Drivingmenuts
If it helps, the main character is definitely a boy. I'm not sure how it happened but after he escapes the city, he later ends up in an alternative world somehow and ends up staying up in a tree for a few days (I think this was after he escaped his first almost-run in with the overlords in the new world - from memory the scene was a bit Stargate-ish, if that helps...) while he scopes out the lay of the land before he later comes across the village...
8nicole_sol
City of Ember?
9bookel
Searched Google Books. Maybe?
Hugh Howey's 'Silo' trilogy of novels – Wool (2011–12), Shift (2013) and Dust (2014)
https://www.librarything.com/nseries/2024/Silo-Series
Hugh Howey's 'Silo' trilogy of novels – Wool (2011–12), Shift (2013) and Dust (2014)
https://www.librarything.com/nseries/2024/Silo-Series
10Drivingmenuts
>8 nicole_sol: No, unfortunately
11Drivingmenuts
>9 bookel: Seems like it should be close but not it.
12Drivingmenuts
FOUND IT! It's called "The Amber Project" by J N Chaney:)
