Sylvain Neuvel Books in Order
Explore Sylvain Neuvel’s books in order, with summaries and reading guides to the Themis Files, Take Them to the Stars series and his standalone science fiction.
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Sylvain Neuvel books in publication order
8 books
Sleeping Giants
by Sylvain Neuvel
2016
Physicist Rose Franklin investigates a giant metal hand she discovered underground as a child. Her secret research team hunts for the artifact’s origins and purpose, while an enigmatic interviewer oversees a discovery with consequences for humanity.
Waking Gods
by Sylvain Neuvel
2017
Rose Franklin’s team has spent years studying an ancient giant robot when another machine appears and attacks. As more arrive across the world, the Earth Defense Corps must decipher alien technology to confront an invasion.
Only Human
by Sylvain Neuvel
2018
Returning after nearly a decade on an alien world, Rose Franklin finds Earth embroiled in war between human powers. Giant robots have become weapons in a new struggle, and she searches for a way to stop it.
The Test
by Sylvain Neuvel
2019
In a near-future Britain, Idir takes a citizenship test hoping to secure his family’s place in society. Twenty-five questions become a terrifying moral ordeal when an unexpected crisis gives him power over other people’s lives.
A History of What Comes Next
by Sylvain Neuvel
2021
In 1945, Mia continues her family’s generations-long mission to guide humanity into space. Recruiting Wernher von Braun for America’s rocket program brings her into conflict with a ruthless enemy working behind the scenes of history.
Until the Last of Me
by Sylvain Neuvel
2022
Mia’s family has spent generations steering humanity toward space, but an enemy threatens its mission. As the space race advances, she considers breaking the rule to flee rather than fight, risking her bloodline and humanity’s future.
For the First Time, Again
by Sylvain Neuvel
2023
Unusual blood-test results expose Aster to competing forces hunting the last survivor of an alien race she does not know she belongs to. Pursued by the Trackers and the American government, she receives help from an unexpected source.
The Many
by Sylvain Neuvel
2026
An advertising executive’s strange attack on a doughnut-shop owner sets off an unexpected merging of minds. As their collective expands to include others in a Michigan town, ordinary people confront an unsettling transformation of identity and human connection.
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