Sylvain Neuvel
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Themis files volume 1
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Follows Rose Franklin, first as a young girl near her home in Deadwood, South Dakota where she falls through the earth and discovers a giant metal hand, then seventeen years later as a highly trained physicist leading a team trying to crack the hand's code.
2) The Test
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Award-winning author Sylvain Neuvel explores an immigration dystopia in The Test
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?
At the Publisher's...
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Showing that truth is stranger than fiction, Sylvain Neuvel's A History of What Comes Next weaves a sci-fi thriller that blends a fast moving, darkly satirical look at 1940s rocketry with the amorality of progress, and the nature of violence.
Always run, never fight.
Preserve the knowledge.
Survive at all cost.
Take them to the stars.
Over 99 identical generations, Mia's family has shaped human history to push them to the stars, making brutal,...
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Always run, never fight.
Preserve the knowledge.
Survive at all cost.
Take them to the stars.
Over 100 identical generations, Mia's family has shaped earth history to push humanity to the stars, making brutal, wrenching choices and sacrificing countless lives.
After nudging the human race through the dawn of rocket technology, Mia finds herself about to help launch the first people into space. She can't take them to the stars, not quite yet,...
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This program features multicast narration.
"Exciting, thought-provoking, and ultimately shocking...I'm in for the ride to the very end!" -James Rollins on A History of What Comes Next
Against the backdrop of authentic historical events, Sylvain Neuvel concludes his acclaimed Take Them to the Stars series with a biting satire on the role of authority in all its guises, bringing us a truly breathtaking science fiction trilogy that spans the ages.
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