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Sleeping Giants: 1 (Themis Files)

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The book continues to do very well with us regularly receiving messages from people who have read it and found it helpful and encouraging," Tommy said. It was put together incredibly well, the amount of planning that must have gone into this book is mindblowing. The book is was very original and even though it was a new, the concept, the details, the facts, the science, and the characters were very well thought out. The amount of research that must have been done is tremendous.

You have to understand that this flies in the face of everything we know about American civilizations. Seventeen years later, the mystery of the bizarre artifact remains unsolved - the object's origins, architects, and purpose unknown.I do hate blurbs that say misleading things to link an author to other big items like The Martian or World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, and honestly, this novel is really nothing like them. There is such a sense of the need of people having a renewed sense of hope about the future. This will be a central focus and goal of the tour. The very thing which I didn't like in Sleeping Giants is that this book has files rather than chapters. File numbers are irritating. Can't be understood.

An 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. This will change the way we think of the world, the way we see ourselves. This will reshape this planet, and we have an opportunity to help steer that change. How many lives is that worth to you?" Well, how about : the Ripley ripoff – she’s from Alien The Movie you know – and the superintelligent geek, and the Mad Scientist – this is not profound characterization, you know. The 'interviewer' is my favorite character. I loved him and his grey look on science and humanity. Let me relay to you a quote he said that left me utterly shook... 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 civilisation on the continent.In this thing, The Martian is wayy better. It skips the logs but at least it tells us what has happened in the logs which are skipped. Quittner, Jeremy (February 9, 2017). "Shopify Won't Remove Breitbart's Online Shop, Claiming Free Speech". Fortune.com . Retrieved November 21, 2018.

This is an absolutely delightful and pure SF novel that doesn't dumb down to us, expresses true joy at revealing the nature of the universe, and for the rest of us who are in it for a grand adventure with high stakes and much, much higher stakes to come thanks to the Titans, you're in for a treat. The interviewer conducts a clandestine meeting among non-American nations to invest in an effort to retrieve the robot. This new top-secret mission is spearheaded by Alyssa, but her incompetence leads to the plans being publicly exposed. The U.S. makes the case on moral grounds that the robot ought to be returned to America. The interviewer agrees. Upon retrieval, the U.S. grants the robot to the U.N. to be used in the Earth Defense Corps, an international conglomeration meant to fend off future alien incursion. The novel concludes with an epilogue, in which Rose awakens on the side of a road in Ireland. She has no memory of the past four years during which the secret mission was conducted but can remember everything before the events transpired.The format is interviews and diary entries. I am not sure if this sort of thing is for everyone, but I like it quite a bit. I am a “short-chapter/small-paragraph lover”. Not that I don’t like the big ones, but I feel more accomplished when I can tear through a whole bunch of the book on my lunch break – and I felt very accomplished with this one! As a child, Rose Franklin made an astonishing discovery: a giant metallic hand, buried deep within the earth. 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. But the truth is closer than ever before when a second robot, more massive than the first, materializes and lashes out with deadly force.

Sleeping Giants is an interesting read for anyone who loves Sci-Fi and mecha or giant robot in their story. There's more people involved, but I'm not here to give everything away. I'm here to tell you that this was impossible to put down. This felt like a movie, but also very life like. This is also one of my new favorites. And I'm about to binge the rest of the series. That's all I'm saying. Rose Franklin, riding her bike on her eleventh birthday, falls into a fifty-foot deep hole that suddenly appears in her path. When she comes to the next morning, she is lying on a twenty-three foot long metal hand at the bottom of a perfectly square hole, as big as a house, with bright turquoise light shining from unreadable symbols carved in the walls around her. It took me about two chapters to get into this. After prologue I was maybe intrigued. After chapter one I was definitely intrigued, but due to the format I didn't think that I'd relate or feel any feelings towards the characters. Somewhere in the middle of chapter two I was suddenly invested, intrigued and feeling all the feels! So, Sylvain Neuvel, bravo. This first book in 'Themis Files' Sci-Fi series by Sylvain Neuvel and it began with an 11 years old kid, Rose Franklin falling down through a rabbit hole (not really but still, a hole). After she was saved, turns out that the place she fell upon was on a giant metal hand. The story then fast forward to 17 years later with Rose now leading a top secret team to unravel the origin, mystery and purpose of the giant robot together with the enigmatic Nameless Interviewer.Actual sf writers, if they come across this one, will be gnawing their own lower left arm off in frustration. Their intricate masterpieces sail by unnoticed by the multitude, but everyone falls instantly in love with this johnny-one-note tale.

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