When a second piece of the statue's body - for it's apparent the hand was part of a greater whole - is discovered by accident in Turkey during a military recon mission, the mission's pilots, Warrant Officers Kara Resnik and Ryan Mitchell, are brought into the team as well.
from the University of Chicago and is working as a senior scientist on the team studying the hand and the symbol-covered panels. The artifact, whose mere existence essentially rewrites everything humanity has understood about its own history, has been under study by the US military and such shadowy government agencies as the NSA. And Rose has fallen into the palm of an enormous, 6000-year-old metal hand.įlash forward many years. This is no ordinary sinkhole, though, but a clearly artificial buried chamber lined with metallic panels covered in glowing, cryptic symbols. It all begins when 11-year-old Rose Franklin takes her brand new birthday bicycle out for a spin and promptly falls into a massive sinkhole. Sleeping Giants feels less like a satisfying novel in its own right than a warm-up exercise for its inevitable sequel. It's that he doesn't go quite far enough with the idea. (Shades of the monolith in 2001.) And it isn't that debut author Sylvain Neuvel does anything wrong, especially. You'd think there would be little you could do wrong with the premise of the discovery of a 20-story-tall alien battle robot buried deep underground, awaiting only the right technological triggers, indicating a sufficient level of advancement by the human race, to awaken from its robotty slumber and make its presence known.
Tweets by by the standards of popcorn storytelling, Sleeping Giants could have stood so much taller than it does. Book cover artwork is copyrighted by its respective artist and/or publisher. Solving the secret of where it came from - and how many more parts may be out there - could change life as we know it.All reviews and site design © by Thomas M. An object whose origins and purpose are perhaps the greatest mystery humanity has ever faced. Rose Franklyn, a brilliant scientist and the leading world expert on what she discovered.Īn enormous, ornate hand made of an exceptionally rare metal, which predates all human civilisation on the continent. The people looking down see something far stranger. Waking up at the bottom of a deep pit, she sees an emergency rescue team above her. Suddenly, the ground disappears beneath her. A girl sneaks out just before dark to ride her new bike.
What happens when you make a discovery that changes everything?ĭeadwood, USA. But what if we were meant to find it? And what happens when this vast, global puzzle is complete.? It dares us to question what we know about ourselves.
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