At the beginning of Waking Gods, a giant robot similar to Themis descends from the sky over Regent's Park in London. At the end of the novel, the United States gives the robot to the United Nations’ newly founded Earth Defense Corps to serve as a key deterrent against alien invasions. Because the robot is powered by nuclear fuel, it is only in the post-atomic age that humans can operate it. Rose learns from an ancient alien soldier living in the guise of a human body that his civilization left the robot pieces there to determine if humanity is worthy of the technology. Over time, other giant metallic body parts are uncovered until a huge humanoid robot named Themis is constructed. Seventeen years have passed, and Rose is now a 28-year-old physicist who devotes her career to uncovering the mysteries of the hand. As detailed in the previous installment, Sleeping Giants, as a child Rose accidentally fell into a perfectly square hole in the Earth surrounded by bizarre carvings. The protagonist of the series is Rose Franklin. Waking Gods concerns the arrival on Earth of giant metallic robots of a mysterious origin. Canadian author Sylvain Neuvel’s science-fiction novel Waking Gods (2017) is the second installment of his Themis Files trilogy which begins with 2016's Sleeping Giants and concludes with 2018's Only Human.
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