The Themis Files trilogy begins with Neuvel's debut novel
Sleeping Giants. It follows a group of scientists as they track down and assemble a giant robot of mysterious origins, scattered across the Earth. The novel is written in back-and-forth dialogues, journal entries and documentation rather than through traditional narration. Neuvel first submitted the novel to literary agents in 2014 and received 50 rejections. was optioned by
Sony Pictures for development into a film. It was a finalist for the 2016
Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Science Fiction, the 2017 Compton Crook Award and for the Concordia University First Book Prize at the 2016
Quebec Writers' Federation Awards. Neuvel was announced as one of three contributing authors of a
Black Mirror book, but the project was shelved in 2018. ==Other work==