Sylvain Neuvel’s trilogy The Themis Files is a gripping and intelligent exploration of very real and contemporary questions. What does it all mean? What is the robot capable of? Why was it left here? Who is the mysterious, anonymous intelligence official who seems to have unlimited government resources and the ability to start or prevent military operations? Why does a seemingly average, middle-aged private citizen have a detailed knowledge of the aliens who showed up thousands of years ago but haven’t been seen or heard from since? For years the greatest minds in science and government can make no sense of it, until that same girl–now grown up–puts the clues together and oversees a global project to find and put together the robot. In our time, one day an 11-year-old girl wanders through some woods at night and falls in a pit–and into the palm of a huge metallic hand. Thousands of years ago, an advanced alien race arrived on our planet, disassembled a giant robot, and buried its pieces all over the globe.
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