Meanwhile, Chief Warrant Officer Kara Resnik and her fellow American copilot Ryan Mitchell monitor Syrian airspace for the presence of nuclear weaponry. But she tries not to let her past encounter with the hand muddy her judgment. With an inquisitive nature, Rose suspects there are more body parts to be unearthed. Rose, now an accomplished twenty-eight-year-old physicist, is put in charge of the research project and tasked with deciphering the symbols embossed on the hand.

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. I’m not on social media.Sleeping Giants is the 2016 science-fiction debut novel by Canadian author Sylvain Neuvel. And then another part of the giant robot is found.ĭan Livingston recommended this book to me:Īmazon rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars (4,050 reviews) Rose Franklin is leading the research team investigating the giant metal hand. Walking towards the glow, she suddenly falls through the soil and lands in a giant metal hand. She see a eerie turquoise light and gets off her bike to investigate. On her 11th birthday, Rose Franklin was riding her new bike in the woods near her house. Except, the prologue is written in conventional first person style. This book is written in the style of interviews with various people. I have ordered books two and three for future reading. I read the well printed and well bound trade paperback published by Del Rey Books in 2016 that I purchased new from Amazon. Book number one of a three book science fiction series about giant robots.

Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel