I have no idea why he decided on that time frame, but I think it may have had something to do with time he thought it would take the planet to recover from all the damage we did to it. So Wayward Pines is a real town in Idaho in the twenty-first century, but it’s also reborn eighteen hundred years in the future when Pilcher and his crew wake up. He develops suspended animation techniques and recruits about a hundred and fifty people to help him, and then press-gangs about six hundred more folks into becoming the residents of his little outpost, known as Wayward Pines. He spends his lifetime trying to figure out how to save humanity, or rather, prolong its existence. Sometime in the 1970s a brilliant young scientist named David Pilcher figures out that the human race as we know it is going to become extinct within thirty or forty generations because of genetic mutations brought on by all of the chemicals and pollution we have set loose on the planet. So what the hell is going on, you ask? Well, I’ll tell you. And the person who says she’s his ex-partner Kate Hewson is actually his ex-partner, despite the fact that she seems to have aged more than ten years since they last saw each other a year or so ago. And yes, that is actually Ethan’s real wife and son living in Wayward Pines when Ethan shows up, and yes, they are actually five years older than they were the last time Ethan saw them. First, no, the residents of Wayward Pines are not robots as in The Stepford Wives. I don’t think there’s any way to talk about Wayward without giving away important plot points in Pines. If you want to maximize suspense while reading these books, don’t go any further. There are spoilers aplenty to be found here, about Pines, and also about Wayward. I promised no spoilers in my review of the first Wayward Pines book, but no such promise exists in this post.

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