Sleeping Giants
- 336
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Sleeping Giants” opens a trilogy with an imaginative premise: a girl falls into a pit and lands on an enormous, ancient metal hand. Years later, as a scientist, she is the leading expert on the find, which is older than any civilisation on the continent. The story is told through documents instead of conventional narration, and some readers praise the audio version for its voice acting; others miss the depth they were hoping for.
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About the book
A must-read thriller for lovers of The Passage, World War Z, The Martian or Interstellar What happens when you make a discovery that changes everything? 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... "We always look forward. We never look back." That girl grows up to be Dr. Rose Franklyn, 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. "But this thing ... it's different. It challenges us. It rewrites history." 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 may be out there - could change life as we know it. "It dares us to question what we know about ourselves." But what if we were meant to find it? And what happens when this vast, global puzzle is complete...? "About everything." * * * 'Bursts at the seams with big ideas. A sheer blast from start to finish. I haven't had this much fun reading in ages' Blake Crouch, author of the Wayward Pines trilogy 'A stellar debut which masterfully blends sci-fi, political thriller and apocalyptic fiction.
Reading order · Themis Files
Full order & progress →- Sleeping GiantsThis book
7.67.6 / 10 - Waking Gods
7.97.9 / 10 - Only Human
7.57.5 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.6 across 726 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 83% of the weight and the score stays at 7.6 — the Science fiction average of 7.8 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.7 | 35 | 5% |
| Hardcover | 7.6 | 691 | 95% |
Frequently asked
How long is Sleeping Giants?
It has 336 pages — shorter than 74% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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