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Sleeping Giants
Themis Files Book 1
Series: Themis Files
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If you loved The Passage, World War Z, The Martian or Interstellar – this is a must-read thriller for you.
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 civilization on the continent.
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 might be out there – could change life as we know it.
But what if we were meant to find it? And what happens when this vast, global puzzle is complete?
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Sleeping Giants
If you loved The Passage, World War Z, The Martian or Interstellar – this is a must-read thriller for you. 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...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Waking Gods
This gripping sequel to Sleeping Giants is a thriller for fans of The Passage, World War Z, The Martian, and Interstellar. As a child, Rose Franklin made an astonishing discovery—a huge metallic hand buried deep in the earth. She has since focused her scientific career on uncovering everything she can about the hand and the other gigantic body parts found...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Only Human
The gripping final instalment in the Sleeping Giants trilogy – Transformers meets Jurassic Park. We always thought the biggest threat to humanity would come from the outside. We were wrong. Brilliant scientist Rose Franklin has devoted her adult life to solving the mystery she accidentally stumbled upon as a child—a huge metal hand buried beneath the ground outside Deadwood, South...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
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Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel offers a gripping blend of sci-fi and thriller elements, creating a promising start to a series that captivates readers with its fast-paced narrative, combining political intrigue and apocalyptic themes. It has been described as a page-turner that rivals the excitement of The Martian, delivering big ideas and pure entertainment from beginning to end, appealing to those who enjoy immersive and thought-provoking reads.
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ISBN: 9781405921886
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 30 March 2017
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 23.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 269g
Pages: 384
About the Author
Sylvain Neuvel has a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Chicago. He is an amateur robotics enthusiast and lifelong fan of all things science fiction. He is the author of two critically-acclaimed series- Themis Files novels- Sleeping Giants, Waking Gods and Only Human, and Take Them To the Stars- A History of What Comes Next, and Until the Last of Me. He lives in Montreal.
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