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The original was posted on /r/siloseries by /u/insecuredane on 2023-09-27 09:59:37.

I just finished Wool by Hugh Howey, which is the first book in the Silo Saga. I watched the series three times (love it!) and so I was of course super interested in any differences between the book and the TV show. Please be aware that this post will contain spoilers from the book as well as the TV show. I have tried to keep spoilers to a minimum for stuff that has not yet happened in the TV show. So without further ado, here are the differences I personally find most interesting:

• In the TV series, Billings’ name was changed from Peter Billings to Paul Billings. Maybe this was because Juliette’s dad is also called Peter, and the TV show wanted to avoid double names?

• In the down deep, a mechanical by the name of Walker lives who never leaves their office. In the book this is a man, and in the TV series it’s a woman.

• One of Juliette’s good friends in the down deep is Shirley. In the book she’s very much introduced as a wife and in the beginning mostly seen in connection to wifely duties (bringing her husband food, kissing him goodbye, etc.) whereas in the TV show she’s not depicted as having a husband at all - developments on this front do happen in the book, but the introduction is very different between the two.

• In the book, the inhabitants of the Silo know about religion & some idea of ‘God’ which is never mentioned in the TV series. The presence of priests in the Silo is also mentioned.

• In the book, the inhabitants of the Silo have access to certain children’s books from the before, as well as astrology (probably through books too). This means they know about topics they don’t seem to know about in the show, e.g., the sun, comets, stars, certain animals like elephants, etc.

• In the books, Marnes hangs himself. In the TV series, he is murdered.

• In the TV show, Sims plays a much bigger role than in the book. He is barely seen in the book, even though his role is hinted at between the lines. He has very few spoken lines himself, if any.

Spoiler for something that might yet still happen in the show? Unsure, but thought it required an additional spoiler:

• In the book, Bernard picks Lukas to be his shadow, and Lukas is introduced to all the knowledge of IT. In the TV show, Lukas briefly helps Juliette and as a consequence is sent to 10 years in the mines. Even though there is eventually a fallout between Bernard and Lukas in the book, it ends very differently, and Lukas is never sent to the mines.