Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Seventeen years later, the hand is transferred to the University of Chicago for further research. Not much is gleaned about the hand other than it is roughly six thousand years old and, despite being comprised of the extremely scarce heavy metal iridium, is “inexplicably light given its composition.” Without much information to extract, the hand is demilitarized and placed into storage. The military seizes the hand immediately, assigning scientific experts to examine the relic. On her eleventh birthday, Rose Franklin, riding her new bicycle near the city of Deadwood, abruptly falls through a giant hole in the ground, landing in the palm of a massive metal hand buried nearly seven meters deep. ![]() Narrated by an unknown interviewer, the story begins in the Black Hills of South Dakota. As the first book in a series called The Themis Files, Sleeping Giants has been called “a stellar debut” by Kirkus Reviews, and “one of the most promising series kickoffs in recent memory” by NPR. When the artifact proves to be a single body part from a humanoid relic left behind by an alien race, Rose and her team must uncover the remaining anatomical puzzle pieces and decipher their significance. Narrated through a series of case-file interviews, transcripts, news-clippings, mission logs, and personal diaries, the overarching story tells of Rose Franklin, a physicist in charge of solving the mystery of an ancient artifact she came in contact with seventeen years prior. Sleeping Giants is the 2016 science-fiction debut novel by Canadian author Sylvain Neuvel. ![]()
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