Sylvain Neuvel

A girl named Rose is riding her new bike near home in Deadwood, South Dakota, when she falls through the earth. She wakes up at the bottom of a square-shaped hole, its walls glowing with intricate carvings. But the firemen who come to save her peer down upon something even stranger: a little girl in the palm of a giant metal hand. Seventeen years later, the mystery of the bizarre artifact remains unsolved - the object's origins, architects, and purpose unknown. But some can never stop searching for answers. Rose Franklin is now a highly trained physicist leading a top-secret team to crack the hand's code. And along with her colleagues, she is being interviewed by a nameless interrogator whose power and purview are as enigmatic as the relic they seek. What's clear is that Rose and her compatriots are on the edge of unravelling history's most perplexing discovery-and finally figuring out what it portends for humanity. But once the pieces of the puzzle are in place, will the result be an instrument of lasting peace or a weapon of mass destruction?

As a child, Rose Franklin made an astonishing discovery: a giant metallic hand, buried deep within the earth. As an adult, she’s dedicated her brilliant scientific career to solving the mystery that began that fateful day: Why was a titanic robot of unknown origin buried in pieces around the world? Years of investigation have produced intriguing answers—and even more perplexing questions. But the truth is closer than ever before when a second robot, more massive than the first, materializes and lashes out with deadly force. Now humankind faces a nightmare invasion scenario made real, as more colossal machines touch down across the globe. But Rose and her team at the Earth Defense Corps refuse to surrender. They can turn the tide if they can unlock the last secrets of an advanced alien technology. The greatest weapon humanity wields is knowledge in a do-or-die battle to inherit the Earth . . . and maybe even the stars.

Britain, the not-too-distant future. Idir is sitting the British Citizenship Test. He wants his family to belong. Twenty-five questions to determine their fate. Twenty-five chances to impress. When the test takes an unexpected and tragic turn, Idir is handed the power of life and death.How do you value a life when all you have is multiple choice?

Showing that truth is stranger than fiction, Sylvain Neuvel weaves a sci-fi thriller reminiscent of Blake Crouch and Andy Weir, blending a fast moving, darkly satirical look at 1940s rocketry with an exploration of the amorality of progress and the nature of violence in A History of What Comes Next.Always run, never fight. Preserve the knowledge.Survive at all costs.Take them to the stars.Over 99 identical generations, Mia’s family has shaped human history to push them to the stars, making brutal, wrenching choices and sacrificing countless lives. Her turn comes at the dawn of the age of rocketry. Her mission: to lure Wernher Von Braun away from the Nazi party and into the American rocket program, and secure the future of the space race. But Mia’s family is not the only group pushing the levers of history: an even more ruthless enemy lurks behind the scenes.A darkly satirical first contact thriller, as seen through the eyes of the women who make progress possible and the men who are determined to stop them.

The First Rule is the most important: "Always run, never fight." Over 100 generations, Mia's family has shaped Earth's history to push humanity to the stars, making brutal, wrenching choices along the way. And now Mia finds herself about to help launch the first people into space. She can't take them to the stars, not quite yet. But with her adversary almost upon her, and with the future of the planet at stake it's becoming clearer that obeying the First Rule is no longer an option. For the first time since her line's first generation, Mia will have to choose to stand her ground, knowing that the overwhelming odds mean that she risks not only her bloodline, but also the future of the human race. A darkly satirical thriller, as seen through the eyes of the women who sacrifice all to make progress possible and the men who are determined to stop them... Always run, never fight.Preserve the knowledge.Survive at all cost.Take them to the stars.

Deadwood, South Dakota. Den lilla flickan Rose cyklar i kvarteren nära sitt hem när marken under henne plötsligt försvinner i ett slukhål. Hon vaknar upp på botten av en djup grop. Räddningspersonalen som kikar ner i hålet möts av en chockerande syn: en liten flicka i en gigantisk hand av metall. Sjutton år senare är mysteriet med det bisarra metallföremålet ännu inte löst. Forskarnas teorier och militärens undersökningar har inte kunnat förklara det märkliga. Fallet läggs på is. Men vissa slutar aldrig söka efter svar. Som Rose. Hon är nu en välutbildad fysiker och leder ett topphemligt team som försöker lösa gåtan med handen. Men samtidigt som hennes forskningsteam succesivt närmar sig sanningen hopar sig gåtorna: Vem placerade handen i marken? Finns det fler delar? Och vad ska den användas till? Detta är den första delen i en nyskapande thriller-trilogi som tagit läsarna med storm. Den har spridits via mun-mot-mun metoden och erövrat land för land. De övriga delarna i serien heter Gudarna vaknar och Bara människa.

From the author of the "Themis Files" and the "Take Them to the Stars" series comes a new, riveting story of first contact. What kind of message would you have sent into space? I wouldn’t have. Why not? Because they might hear it, and then they might come. A mysterious radio signal is picked up from a neighboring star system. A group of experts is brought to the floor of the Grand Canyon to investigate its origin and its meaning as the planet suffers one natural disaster after another. Cut off from the rest of the world, they must question everything, including each other, if they hope to solve the mystery. What they discover could be the difference between life as we know it—and the end of the world.

Aster believes she is a normal teenage girl - she is very wrong . . . Teenager Aster barely escapes with her life when her adoptive father is killed in a shooting. Suddenly finding herself under the protection of a special US military unit, she learns that blood tests indicate that she's not even human. Unsure who or what she might be - or if any of this is true - Aster's first instinct is to flee. Unfortunately, she soon finds she is caught between two warring sides: on one, her mortal enemies, the alien Trackers, and on the other, the American government. Then, from the most unexpected quarter, she finds someone offering to help her - someone her instincts tell her can't be trusted . . . Now Aster can be certain of just two things: her blood is more vital than she ever knew and the fate of the world rests upon her survival.

Powieść na miarę „Jurassic Park”, „World War Z” i „Marsjanina”, po mistrzowsku łącząca elementy thrillera, fantastyki i powieści przygodowej. Kiedy pod jadącą rowerem Rose zapada się ziemia i dziewczynka ląduje na ogromnej metalowej dłoni, nikt nie podejrzewa, że to zwiastun wydarzeń, które pchną losy ludzkości na nowe tory. Siedemnaście lat później Rose realizuje swoje marzenie: trafia do zespołu, którego zadaniem jest rozwikłanie tajemnicy zagadkowego artefaktu. Jakby za dotknięciem czarodziejskiej różdżki na całej planecie spod ziemi wyłaniają się ukryte przez tysiące lat, kolejne elementy kolosalnych posągów-robotów. Skąd się wzięły? Czemu miały lub mają służyć? Jaka rola przypadnie Rose w rozwikłaniu zagadki?

In her childhood, Rose Franklin accidentally discovered a giant metal hand buried beneath the ground outside Deadwood, South Dakota. As an adult, Dr. Rose Franklin led the team that uncovered the rest of the body parts which together form Themis: a powerful robot of mysterious alien origin. She, along with linguist Vincent, pilot Kara, and the unnamed Interviewer, protected the Earth from geopolitical conflict and alien invasion alike. Now, after nearly ten years on another world, Rose returns to find her old alliances forfeit and the planet in shambles. And she must pick up the pieces of the Earth Defense Corps as her own friends turn against each other.