Présentation de l'éditeur
SLEEPING GIANTS is a deeply human story about a world-changing alien discovery...11-year-old Rose Franklyn was cycling near her house when the ground disappeared beneath her. When she came to, she was in a deep pit, lying in the palm of a giant metallic hand. Seventeen years later, Dr Franklyn is leading a top-secret scientific investigation into the bizarre artefact. It is clear to Rose and her team that the hand is not only ancient but almost certainly not of this world...
Un mot de l'auteur
Sylvain Neuvel was born in Quebec. He writes science fiction and his first novel, Sleeping Giants, is the first in his genre-busting series The Themis Files. Sylvain received a BA in Linguistics from Université de Montréal in 1999, and his PhD in Linguistics from the University of Chicago in 2003. He is a certified translator and an amateur robotics enthusiast. He is obsessed with Halloween and is currently building a working R2-D2 replica.
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A GIRL NAMED ROSE IS RIDING HER NEW BIKE NEAR HER HOME IN DEADWOOD, South Dakota, when she falls through the earth. She wakes up at the bottom of a square-shaped hole, its walls glowing with intricate carvings. 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.
Seventeen years later, the mystery of the bizarre artifact remains unsolved - the object's origins, architects, and purpose unknown.
But some can never stop searching for answers.
Rose Franklin is now a highly trained physicist leading a top-secret team to crack the hand's code. 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. What's clear is that Rose and her compatriots are on the edge of unravelling history's most perplexing discovery-and finally figuring out what it portends for humanity. 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?
Biographie de l'auteur
Sylvain Neuvel has a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Chicago. He is an amateur robotics enthusiast and life-long fan of all things science fiction. Sleeping Giants is the first in the Themis Files series, followed by Waking Gods and Only Human.
