It's a mystery beyond human comprehension - that is, until Kara Resnik, an Army helicopter pilot, crashes while running a covert operation over Syria. Its composition is nearly impossible, metallurgically speaking, and it weighs one-tenth of what it should. The story fast-forwards 17 years Rose is now a physicist tasked with investigating exactly what the hand is made of. What seems at first like a retelling of The Iron Giant quickly morphs into something more complex. And in Neuvel's capable hands, so is the reader. But one thing is clear: Rose is in for a ride. No one can figure out how this giant, disembodied hand came to be buried beneath the Black Hills, or what the strange, glowing symbols on the walls surrounding the hand are supposed to mean. She's found soon after - sitting on top of a mechanical hand that's over 20 feet long from wrist to fingertip. His debut novel, Sleeping Giants, begins when 11-year-old Rose Franklin falls into a hole that has opened up near her home in South Dakota. What Sylvain Neuvel does with that setup, though, is nothing short of masterful. A kid who finds something incredible in her backyard: It's not quite the most original setup imaginable for a science fiction story.
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