Sleeping Giants: Themis Files Book 1 (Signed First Limited Edition)

Sylvain Neuvel

ISBN 10: 0718181689 / ISBN 13: 9780718181680

Published by Penguin / Michael Joseph / Goldsboro (London), 2016

About this Item

First British Edition. First edition, first printing (with full number sequence including the 1). One of 750 individually numbered copies signed in association with Goldsboro Books. Signed by author on special limitations page. This is copy no. 79. Hardbound. Very Fine in a very fine dust jacket. A tight, clean copy, new and unread. Comes with archival-quality dust jacket protector. NOT price clipped. Shipped in well padded box. SIGNED BY AUTHOR, his name only, with no other marks or writing. You cannot find a better copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sleeping Giants: Themis Files Book 1 (Signed First Limited Edition)
• Publisher: Penguin / Michael Joseph / Goldsboro (London)
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0718181689
• ISBN 13: 9780718181680
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

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."

* * *

'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 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.