I wanted to switch perspective between chapters, but I thought they would feel somewhat disconnected. That said, I couldn’t find the right way to do it at first. I knew it was going to be epistolary from the start. How did you arrive at the format for the book (a combination of interview transcripts, news briefs and journal entries)? Did you try other approaches first? For this book, it was the little girl in the giant metal hand. That got me started, but I tend to picture things before I write them. We were watching ' Grendizer' together and I started thinking about what it would be like if we found some giant alien artifact in real life. I asked my son if he’d like a toy robot but he wanted to know everything about it before I built it. The idea for the book came while watching Japanese anime about a giant robot. How did the story first come to you: was it that image of the giant hand, an idea about the plot, a particular character, or something else? Told in journal entries of the various characters as well as their interviews with a mysterious man who works as a go-between for the project and the government higher-ups, Sleeping Giants is an imaginative tour de force that will appeal to science fiction and mystery fans alike. It all begins when a young girl stumbles (literally) into the archaeological find of the century: an enormous robotic hand created by an ancient alien race.įast-forward some 25 years, and that girl is now a scientist in charge of a military-run operation to find and retrieve other parts of that robot, which could be the greatest weapon the world has ever seen. I’m not on social media.Canadian writer Sylvain Neuvel makes a thrilling debut with Sleeping Giants, a gripping sci-fi adventure that is innovative both in plot and structure. And then another part of the giant robot is found.ĭan Livingston recommended this book to me:Īmazon rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars (4,050 reviews) Rose Franklin is leading the research team investigating the giant metal hand. Walking towards the glow, she suddenly falls through the soil and lands in a giant metal hand. She see a eerie turquoise light and gets off her bike to investigate.

On her 11th birthday, Rose Franklin was riding her new bike in the woods near her house. Except, the prologue is written in conventional first person style.

This book is written in the style of interviews with various people.

I have ordered books two and three for future reading. I read the well printed and well bound trade paperback published by Del Rey Books in 2016 that I purchased new from Amazon. Book number one of a three book science fiction series about giant robots.

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