But the truth is closer now than ever before when a second robot, more massive than the first, materializes and lashes out with deadly force. As an adult, she’s dedicated her brilliant scientific career to solving the mystery that began that fateful day: Why was a titanic robot of unknown origin buried in pieces around the world? Years of investigation have produced intriguing answers-and even more perplexing questions. reminiscent of The Martian and World War Z,” Sylvain Neuvel’s innovative series about human-alien contact takes another giant step forward.Īs a child, Rose Franklin made an astonishing discovery: a giant metallic hand, buried deep within the earth. In the gripping sequel to Sleeping Giants, which was hailed by Pierce Brown as “a luminous conspiracy yarn. “In a word, unputdownable.' -Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Hi! Waking Gods Book two of the Themis Files Sleeping Giants was published in April 2016 by Del Rey (Random House) in North-America. But once the pieces of the puzzle are in place, will the result be an instrument of lasting peace or a weapon of mass destruction?

What's clear is that Rose and her compatriots are on the edge of unraveling history's most perplexing discovery, and finally figuring out what it portends for humanity. And along with her colleagues, she is being interviewed by a nameless interrogator whose power and purview are as enigmatic as the relic they seek. Rose Franklin is now a highly trained physicist leading a top-secret team to crack the hand's code.

Carbon dating defies belief military reports are redacted theories are floated, then rejected.īut some can never stop searching for answers. Seventeen years later, the mystery of the bizarre artifact remains unsolved - the object's origins, architects, and purpose unknown. But the firemen who come to save her peer down upon something even stranger: a little girl in the palm of a giant metal hand. She wakes up at the bottom of a square-shaped hole, its walls glowing with intricate carvings.

“This stellar debut novel … masterfully blends together elements of sci-fi, political thriller and apocalyptic fiction.' -Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Īn inventive debut in the tradition of World War Z and The Martian, told in the cutting-edge cadences of interviews, journal entries, transcripts, and news articles, Sleeping Giants is a literary thriller fueled by a quest for truth, and by a struggle for control of earthshaking power.Ī girl named Rose is riding her new bike near her home in Deadwood, South Dakota, when she falls through the earth.

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