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Seventeen years ago, a teenager vanished into the earth in South Dakota, emerging into the grip of a colossal metal hand. Now, a top‑level physicist, who once studied the incident, commands a research team to uncover the hand’s nature, source, and potential impact on civilization—presented largely through interviews with the enigmatic investigators.
First publish date: 2016
Genre: Science Fiction/Hard Science Fiction
Authors: Sylvain Neuvel
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