![]() ![]() And the narrative is told in interview format, speckled with other content artefacts such as media reports. The action is all of the straightforward variety. There are plot twists and character development, but they’re not that deep or difficult to predict. Sleeping Giants is not a complex piece of writing. ![]() In many ways, Sylvain Neuvel’s debut novel, Sleeping Giants, reminds me of The Martian. ![]() I consumed it in 24 hours and couldn’t put it down. And yet, the book itself was spell-binding. It was initially self-published, as I understand it, through Weir’s blog. Here is a book from a debut author, written in first person tense and involving a limited set of characters. Not only do modern readers have increasing access to all of the great past writers of science fiction books and stories, with their publishers increasingly making available all past content available through platforms such as Amazon’s Kindle, but there is also a rash of young writers coming out with fantastic debut novels.įor example, I was stunned when I picked up Andy Weir’s The Martian several years ago. It’s a great time to be a fan of top-tier science fiction literature. Review Sleeping Giants is a highly enjoyable and accessible novel which builds a human story around the well-worn but still fascinating impact of a piece of alien technology found on Earth. ![]()
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