First book of the "Wool" trilogy, on which silo was based.
Easy read, quite enjoyable. Good escape.
Humans have this disease, Donny, this compulsion to move until we bump into something. And then we tunnel through that something, or we sail over the edge of the oceans, or we stagger across mountains–
The lift, arrived. A man in reactor red excused himself and stepped between the two of them. They boarded and Thurman fumbled for his badge. "Fear," he said, "Even the fear of death is barely enough to counter this compulsion of ours. If we didn't show them what was out there, they would go look for themselves. That's what we've always done as a race."
