Summary

In the Prologue, 11-year-old Rose Franklin has received a bike for her birthday, so she goes riding into the autumn woods at the end of the street. Rose sees something at the bottom of a hill, so she gets off her bike to look at it. She falls. When she wakes up, it is dawn, and she is in a square-shaped hole while her father and firemen are above, preparing to raise her out. When Rose later looks at pictures taken during the incident, she sees herself laying in the palm of a massive metallic hand.

Part One: Body Parts

In File No. 003, an unnamed interviewer speaks to Dr. Rose Franklin, PH.D., now of the University of Chicago’s Enrico Fermi Institute, where she works as the Senior Scientist. Seventeen years have passed. She explains the hand was 23 feet in size, and that...