![]() There are hints that it was placed on Earth to protect humankind, but from what? Far from being a clone of the Transformers, this intriguing tale is entirely worthy of an adult audience. Behind them looms the gigantic, inhuman figure of the robot. Even the anonymous interviewer, by turns enigmatic and supportive, holds the reader’s attention. Neuvel develops several interesting characters, particularly Franklin and cranky pilot Kara Resnik. There I was, this tiny little thing at the bottom of the hole, lying on my back in the palm of a giant metal hand. ![]() He’d taken some pictures and thought I’d like to see them. When the robot’s human pilots accidentally blow a hole in Denver, Colo., thus revealing the machine’s existence, other nations demand access and tensions mount. Sleeping Giants 1 by Sylvain Neuvel Genre: Sci Fi Published 2016, 320 pages 'It was one of the firemen that had gotten me out of the hole. Now that she has grown up and become a prominent scientist, she has, perhaps by coincidence, been put in charge of secretly recovering other parts of the robot, which have apparently been hidden around the world for thousands of years, and returning the behemoth to working order. REPLACE IPAD AND TV TIME WITH INTERACTIVE STEM TOYS: Keep young minds stimulated with these hands-on learning toys for boys and girls this 163-pc. Rose Franklin was a little girl, she made a startling discovery in the woods near her home: the gigantic hand of a robot that appeared to be of alien manufacture. ![]() This fascinating first novel is told mostly through conversations between an unnamed interviewer and the book’s other characters, along with newspaper articles, government memos, and various characters’ journal entries. ![]()
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