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Sylvain Neuvel

Waking Gods

Sleeping Giants

The Test

A History of What Comes Next

About Sylvain Neuvel

Sylvain Neuvel dropped out of high school at age 15. Along the way, he has been a journalist, worked in soil decontamination, sold ice cream in California, and taught linguistics in India. He’s also a certified translator, though he wishes he were an astronaut. He writes about aliens and giant robots as a blatant excuse to build action figures (for his son, of course).

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• A • H I S T O R Y • O F • W H A T • C O M E S • N E X T •

This is my fifth book by @sylvainneuvel and it did not disappoint.

Hard-SF / Fantasy / historical fiction thriller soup of awesomeness happening during the 1940s, focused on real rocket science and the race to space pushed forward by 100 generations of Kibsu women. You just don’t get more badass than them.

This book is heavy and sad, brutally violent, and yet funny. And thrilling. And so smart. The question “what are we willing to sacrifice, both physically and morally, for our purpose, for progress?” is a theme to keep you thinking throughout. Mankind has always been a violent bunch.

You know what made this book extremely easy to read? I mean apart from the smooth story flow and clean time jumps, the great mother-daughter relationship, the cruel villains, the nerdy science, the badass women and awesome dialogue? The short short chapters! Gotta love those. Also comes with a stellar, era-appropriate playlist (find it on Spotify), that goes with every song-titled chapter.

Take them to the stars, before Evil comes and kills them all.

Next book: 1970’s 💫 I can’t wait.

Trigger warning: facts and events relating to the Holocaust, homophobia and mention of conversion therapy methods, suicide, gore, torture, racism, miscarriage, sexual assault...

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I had a blast talking to Forbidden Planet about A

I had a blast talking to Forbidden Planet about A History of What Comes Next. Check it out! Link in bio.

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Spring reading! 💛🌟🌝☀️💫🌕
#springvibes #springreading #tordotcompublishing #bookstagram #booksbooksbooks #booksofig #tbr #currentlyreading #bookish #bookworm #tbrpile #forsythia

Êtes-vous prêts pour l’Examen? (v.f. The Test)

Êtes-vous prêts pour l’Examen? (v.f. The Test)
En France le 14 avril, au Québec le 21. @livredepoche

New toy, but I don’t know how to display him. Wh

New toy, but I don’t know how to display him. What do you think? Mia’s couch or Jack Rabbit Slim twist contest?

This is the signed, numbered special edition of A

This is the signed, numbered special edition of A History of What Comes Next from Goldsboro Books in London. There are a few copies left. Link in bio.

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✨✨ 𝐇 𝐈 𝐒 𝐓 𝐎 𝐑 𝐈 𝐂 𝐀 𝐋 𝐅 𝐈 𝐂 𝐓 𝐈 𝐎 𝐍 ✨✨⁣
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Thank you @ForgeReads @TorBooks and @Tordotcompub for this amazing historical fiction package. ⁣
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𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘏𝘍 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘢𝘷𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘸, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘥𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵.⁣
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#TheWidowQueen by #ElzbietaCherezinska ⁣
PUB DATE: 04/06/21⁣
An epic story of a Polish queen whose life and name were all but forgotten until her husband dies and her long-awaited desire for independent rule is forced to reckon with the reality of a harsh and unforgiving world.⁣
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#Remembrance by #RitaWoods (on-sale 1/26/21) A breakout historical debut with a modern resonance intertwining three tales of time.⁣
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#ComesTheWar @ed_ruggero_author (on-sale 2/9/21)⁣
Set against the heroism and heartbreak of WWII, with a million British men poised to leap the Channel to France to the heart of Germany and the end of the war, a lieutenant continues to investigate a closed murder case of an OSS analyst only to find himself trapped in a web of Soviet secrets.⁣
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#TroubleTheSaints #AlayaDawnJohnson Pub Date 07/21/21 A dangerously dazzling and daring story of New York City and the exchange of power as a young woman from Harlem becomes an assassin and tries to fight her fate at the dawn of World War II.⁣
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#AHistoryOfWhatComesNext By SylvainNeuvel (on-sale 2/2/21)⁣
A darkly satirical Sci-fi thriller about a woman, from a lineage of space workers, whose turn to shape history comes at the dawn of the age of rocketry.⁣
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𝐐𝐎𝐓𝐃: 𝗪𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐛𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧? ⁣
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Love this!

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Book art: Waking Gods by @sylvainneuvel
I wanted to draw Themis as I imagined her, with digitigrade legs, hair as sculpted in clay and unseeing eyes
#thethemisfiles #wakinggods #sylvainneuvel #bookart #bookillustration #themis #procreate #procreatedrawing #procreateillustration #procreateartist #digitalart #digitalartist #illustration #giant #robot #scifi #scifibook #audiobook #bookstagram

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Wisdom from Sweden.

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Gillar du SciFi?
Gillade du Sylvain Neuvels Themistrilogi (”Sovande jättar”, ”Vaknande gudar” och ”Bara människa”)?
Fascinerad av rymdkapplöpningen under 1900-talet?
Då kan jag varmt rekommendera författarens nya bok ”A History of What Comes Next” - en mycket underhållande berättelse om krafter som under århundraden försökt ”putta” mänskligheten åt rätt håll för att en dag kunna nå ut i rymden.
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