Wool

This book pushes so many of my buttons (in a good way) - it's post-apocalypse, it's not a generation ship but in many ways it's the same as a generation ship. And it's got that thing that hooks me into Sherri S. Tepper's books (but without the Moral) - there's something rotten deep in the centre of the society and half the fun is figuring it out as the characters do. (Not quite as straightforward as it being a dystopia, something about the way the rottenness is set-up/revealed.)

The whole world that the protagonists know consists of an underground bunker, which has just one set of observation screens on the top floor out of the hundred or so floors. Society has stratified - engineers are in the lower levels and keep the place running but aren't really appreciated for it. IT are important, and it's not quite clear why to start with, and they've got a whole floor/suite of floors to themselves. The middling floors have the middling people. And up the top are people like the mayor, the sheriff and other officials. And the viewing screens, showing the dead dead world outside.

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