Hugh Howey

Bestselling author of Wool and other books. Currently sailing around the world.

The Header Images

How about those header images? Aren’t they gorgeous? Most of them are nebulae, the massive clouds of elementary particles and plasma that coalesce into solar systems like our very own. If it weren’t for stars, and the fusion of lighter elements into heavier ones that occurs in their constant explosions, we wouldn’t exist. The carbon that forms the framework for life and the oxygen that we use to generate energy are both created inside of stars (not to mention gold, aluminium, plutonium, etc…). Cosmology popularists, such as Carl Sagan, are…