Sleeping Giants: Themis Files Book 1 - Hardcover

Neuvel, Sylvain

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0718181689 ISBN 13: 9780718181680

Publisher: Michael Joseph, 2016

Synopsis

**A must-read thriller for lovers of The Passage, World War Z, The Martian or Interstellar**

What happens when you make a discovery that changes everything?

Deadwood, USA. A girl sneaks out just before dark to ride her new bike. Suddenly, the ground disappears beneath her. Waking up at the bottom of a deep pit, she sees an emergency rescue team above her. The people looking down see something far stranger...

"We always look forward. We never look back."

That girl grows up to be Dr. Rose Franklyn, a brilliant scientist and the leading world expert on what she discovered. An enormous, ornate hand made of an exceptionally rare metal, which predates all human civilisation on the continent.

"But this thing ... it's different. It challenges us. It rewrites history."

An object whose origins and purpose are perhaps the greatest mystery humanity has ever faced. Solving the secret of where it came from - and how many more parts may be out there - could change life as we know it.

"It dares us to question what we know about ourselves."

But what if we were meant to find it? And what happens when this vast, global puzzle is complete...?

"About everything."

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'Bursts at the seams with big ideas. A sheer blast from start to finish. I haven't had this much fun reading in ages' Blake Crouch, author of the Wayward Pines trilogy

'A stellar debut which masterfully blends sci-fi, political thriller and apocalyptic fiction. So much more than the sum of its parts - a page-turner of the highest order' Kirkus Reviews

'Reminiscent of The Martian and World War Z, this is a luminous conspiracy yarn that shoots for (and lands among) the stars' Pierce Brown, author of Red Rising

About this title

About the Author

Sylvain Neuvel was born in Quebec and dropped out of school when he was 15. Since then he has sold ice cream in California, peddled furniture across Canada, and taught Linguistics in India. He has also worked as a software engineer, journalist, certified translator and received a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Chicago.

He is an amateur robotics enthusiast and life-long fan of all things science fiction. Sleeping Giants, his debut novel and first in the Themis Files series, was published in 2016. Waking Gods was his second novel and Only Human is his third.

From the Back Cover

We always look forward. We never look back.

But this thing ... it's different.

It challenges us. It rewrites history.

It dares us to question what we know about ourselves.

About everything.

From the Inside Flap

I don't believe in fate, but somehow 'small world' doesn't begin to do this justice. Dr. Rose Franklin

Deadwood, USA. A girl sneaks out just before dark to ride her new bike. Suddenly, the ground disappears beneath her. Waking up at the bottom of a deep pit, she sees an emergency rescue team above her.

The people looking down see something far stranger...

That girl grows up to be Dr. Rose Franklin, a brilliant scientist and the leading world expert on what she discovered. An enormous, ornate hand made of an exceptionally rare metal, which predates all human civilisation on the continent.

An object whose origins and purpose are perhaps the greatest mystery humanity has ever faced. Solving where it came from - and how many more parts are out there - could change life as we know it.

But what if we were meant to find it? And what will happen when the top-secret global search for the rest of this vast puzzle is complete...?

Edition details

• Publisher: Michael Joseph
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0718181689
• ISBN 13: 9780718181680
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320