Hugh Howey

Hugh C. Howey ( born June 23, 1975 in Charlotte, North Carolina) is an American science fiction writer. He became known through the success of his Wool series, which he has published since 2011 without publisher in the Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing program as an eBook.

Despite lucrative offers to Howey decided against selling his e-book rights to the Wool- series for the U.S. market. For the German market, the Piper Verlag secured the rights, including the e-book rights. The film rights sold Howey at 20th Century Fox. With Written and directed by Ridley Scott and Steven Zaillian to be commissioned.

• 2013: Shiloh, novel, from the English by Gaby Wurster and Johanna nickel, Piper Verlag, Munich and Zurich 2013 ISBN 978-3-492-05585-7 ( Wool Omnibus Edition, 2012).
• 2013: Shiloh, novel, abridged reading of Peter Beer Inger, from the English by Gaby Wurster and Johanna nickel, edited by Astrid Luke, Osterwold audio audiobook at Hamburg, 2013, 8 CDs ( 570 minutes). ISBN 978-3-86952-159-6

• 2009-2010: The Bern Saga
• 2011: The Plagiarist: A Novella
• 2012: The Walk Up Nameless Ridge