01587cam a2200301 4500 296112072 TxAuBib 20160422120000.0 160229s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016004633 9780544839618 0544839617 TxAuBib Howey, Hugh. Shift [BOOK] / Hugh Howey. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016. 570 pages ; 21 cm. Silo trilogy ; 2 "In 2007 the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platforms that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate. In the same year, the CBS network re-aired a program about the effects of propranolol on sufferers of extreme trauma. A simple pill, it had been discovered, could wipe out the memory of any traumatic event. At almost the same moment in humanity's broad history, mankind discovered the means for bringing about its utter downfall. And the ability to forget it ever happened. This is the second volume in the New York Times best-selling Wool series"-- Provided by publisher. 20160422. Dystopias Fiction. Civilization, Subterranean Fiction. Underground areas Fiction. Amnesia Fiction. Science fiction. Apocalyptic fiction. Silo trilogy ; 2.