Highly Recommended.
Billed as Book One of the Themis Files this exciting and confident debut novel is a gripping mix of techno-thriller and SF. If you enjoyed the film Interstellar or the novels of Michael Crichton or, further back, Arthur C. Clarke then this will hit the spot for you. It combines fast moving and tense geo-political plotting and tensions with a genuine sense of wonder. From the very first chapter we are left asking big questions about what the events of the book mean for mankind and our place in the universe and as the pages go by and you learn more these questions only get bigger and more urgent. Neuvel manages his world changing revelations very well and our perspective on them is always grounded by seeing them through the eyes of a strong set of characters.
The book begins with the discovery in America, by a young girl, of a huge artefact in the shape of a hand. By the time the girl has grown up to become Dr. Rose Franklyn we know only that the hand is impossibly ancient, incredibly high-tech and made from a metal that we barely understand. It also becomes clear that the hand was once attached to a body. As the USA struggles to learn what the hand is and where it came from a race develops around the world to find and claim the rest of the body the book also starts posing questions that stretch far beyond the bounds of earth and promise an even wider adventure for later novels.
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