Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FILE 002 | 2017 | Sylvain Neuvel | N/A |
| 2 | FILE 247 | 2016 | Sylvain Neuvel | N/A |
| 3 | Spící obři | 2016 | Sylvain Neuvel | N/A |
| 4 | Sleeping Giants | 2016 | Sylvain Neuvel | Buy |
| 5 | Waking Gods | 2017 | Sylvain Neuvel | Buy |
| 6 | FILE 1743 | 2018 | Sylvain Neuvel | N/A |
| 7 | Only Human | 2018 | Sylvain Neuvel | Buy |
| 8 | FILE 2491 | 2019 | Sylvain Neuvel | N/A |
The Themis Files series by Sylvain Neuvel begins when a young girl in South Dakota falls through the ground and lands in a giant metal hand. Years later, as a physicist, she leads the effort to find and assemble the rest of the colossal alien figure buried in pieces across the planet. The books expand from this initial mystery into questions about who left the robot and why, with increasingly high stakes as more alien technology surfaces.
Neuvel tells the entire story through found documents — interviews conducted by a mysterious unnamed government official, military reports, personal journals, and media transcripts. This format keeps the pacing tight and lets readers fill in gaps between the recorded moments. The series moves from archaeological thriller to first contact story to something closer to political science fiction as it progresses through its three main novels and companion pieces.