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Amazon.com: The Book of Elsewhere: A Novel (Audible Audio Edition): Keanu Reeves, China Miéville, Allan Corduner, Asia Kate Dillon, China Miéville, Edoardo Ballerini, Joshua…
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An “action-packed [and] profoundly stylish” (Los Angeles Times) epic from Keanu Reeves and China Miéville, unlike anything these two genre-bending pioneers have created before, inspired by the world of the BRZRKR comic books
She said, We needed a tool. So I asked the gods.
There have always been whispers. Legends. The warrior who cannot be killed. Who’s seen a thousand civilizations rise and fall. He has had many names: Unute, Child of Lightning, Death himself. These days, he’s known simply as “B.”
And he wants to be able to die.
In the present day, a U.S. black-ops group has promised him they can help with that. And all he needs to do is help them in return. But when an all-too-mortal soldier comes back to life, the impossible event ultimately points toward a force even more mysterious than B himself. One at least as strong. And one with a plan all its own.
In a collaboration that combines Miéville’s singular style and creativity with Reeves’s haunting and soul-stirring narrative, these two inimitable artists have created something utterly unique, sure to delight existing fans and to create scores of new ones.
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Amazon.com: The Book of Elsewhere: A Novel (Audible Audio Edition): Keanu Reeves, China Miéville, Allan Corduner, Asia Kate Dillon, China Miéville, Edoardo Ballerini, Joshua…
brian millerpattee –
Just started this book the other day and it was tough to put down. I highly enjoy the comic BRZRKR which is why I bought this book. The book is set in that universe and it is real good. I highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys the comic BRZRKR.
Even if you haven’t read the comic, I recommend this book and highly recommend checking out the comic book.
Scrapper –
If my title strikes you as deep and meaningful THEN you have found your book. The words they roll over like a tombstone in a swimming pool. Again, deep.
Yes, you found your book.
Still love Keanu. Won’t be fooled again
C Perry –
This book takes you on a thousand journeys. Through multiple lifetimes and experiences. It bounces you back and forth through time, but always brings you back. Sometimes feeling like you understand better, sometimes wondering where it will take you next. But always wanting to turn the next page!
Eddie Azron Bin Kamaron –
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For fantasy lovers!! Recommended!!
Amazon Customer –
I have to say I was not familiar with Reeves’s BRZRKR comic book series about an immortal warrior that was the inspiration for this book, but after reading The Book of Elsewhere I may have to check it out. Now lets get this out of the way right from the start. I have no doubt that a lot of people are going to want to check this book out simply because they’ll see the name Keanu Reeves on the cover. And I’ll admit that most definitely got my attention. But people should also pay attention to the other name on there cover: China Mieville. Because make no mistake this is every bit a Mieville novel as anything else I’ve ever read from him. And this is where I think some that check out The Book of Elsewhere will run into trouble, or perhaps disappointment. Not because there isn’t a good, thought provoking story here, because there definitely is, but rather because of China’s unique writing style. Even though I’d read several of China’s books in the past, it had been a while and I had forgotten how jarring his style can be. I’m honestly not even sure how to describe it, though I had a friend who had bored one of my books and she put it this way. ‘I can’t read this. I feel like I’m back in school being forced to read Shakespeare.’ She meant it as a joke of course, but I knew what she meant. This is not relaxed, easy reading, not a beach read, or something you can read as you drift off the sleep. (At least I can’t.) No, when you read one of China’s books, you need to focus, pay attention or you might find yourself lost and confused, rereading the same paragraph multiple times in a row without even realizing it, lol. That’s just my longwinded way of saying, China makes you work for it, and for some that may well be a turn off. 3.5 stars I’d like to thank Random House Publishing Group – Ballantine | Del Rey, and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review an eARC of The Book of Elsewhere.
jhbandcats –
This book was really dense. Sometimes I would read a sentence or a paragraph two or three times before I understood what it was saying. I think I would have liked this more had I read the BRZRKR comics. I spent a lot of time in the first half trying to figure out who was who, when was when, and what was going on.
I wasn’t bothered that the book was told in several tenses, mostly second and third person. However, as the story takes place in different time periods, after each change it took a while till I knew where I was and who the characters were. I found the contemporary timeline more interesting, maybe because I like spy / mystery tales.
There’s good depth of character where Unute is just tired, tired of all the death, tired of all the repetition of life. Despite his being an agent of horrific destruction, he’s actually a sympathetic character.
Supposedly the comics are being made into a movie starring, of course, Keanu Reeves. I confess that throughout I pictured him as Unute, even hearing the dialogue in my head in Keanu’s voice.
I’m not sure this book would appeal to a general audience. It’s pretty abstruse, and the violence might be a dealbreaker for some readers.
Mr. Rabbit –
I enjoyed it very much. I have not read, and am not familiar with, the BRZRKR universe (but will be). I have read most of China’s fiction. It can take getting used to his style but is well worth it.
I won’t say anything about plot and the story other than I quite liked and I was looking forward to some new fiction from Miéville. If you like his work, you’ll like this if you know BRZRKR or not. Well done.
Sheldon A. Wiebe –
The Book of Elsewhere is loosely based on Keanu Reeves’ BOOM! Studios comic, BRZRKR, about an immortal warrior.
While the comic deals with questions about life, death and the less than wonderful aspects of immortality (along with a whole lot of violence), The Book of Elsewhere – plotted by Reeves and Mieville and written by Mieville), goes deeper into a growing mythology.
Unute, or B., is eighty thousand years old and seen civilizations come and go. Born of his mother’s plea with the gods for weapon to protect her clan, B. is the very definition of a berserker. When he reaches a certain state of anger, blue lightning spills from his eyes and woe betide whoever/whatever is in front of him (and if an ally accidentally falls within his range of vision, that ally is toast).
After eighty thousand years of this, B. is tired. He doesn’t want to die per se – he wants to become mortal and face an inevitable death from comparatively natural causes.
To that end, he is work with The Unit, a super-shadowy U.S. government agency that wants to use him to develop super soldiers. They are only the latest of this kind of agency to do so (over his lifespan he’s been through this before – in civilizations that are equal to or more advance than ours).
There are those who, over the millennia, believe that B. is literally Death Itself and tried to kill him. In at least one case, those efforts lasted decades before a unique event freed him. A faction based on those people still exists and they continue to attempt to kill him.
And then there’s the deer-pig. (That’s all I’ll say about that!)
While the book contains violence of the same extremes as the comic, it doubles down on B,’s search for some way to become mortal while giving us glimpses of events from his past – through which we come to understand just how much more fatigued/weary B. is than anyone else in existence.
Reeves and Mieville ask the question what does death mean to an immortal? What would a mortal existence mean to him? To what lengths might he go to find out? How can he change what/who he is? Is he, for all intents and purposes, a god? (He claims to find even the concept of gods disgusting…)
Through B.’s interactions with various employees of The Unit (military and civilian) never quite evolve into friendships. There are those he respects (particularly if they can occasionally surprise him – after eighty thousand years, he’s come as close as possible to never being surprised – but there are a few moments…), and those he tolerates.
Then there are those to whom he pays no attention at all (a state much worse than being hated – unless that hatred to reach a certain level of anger).
Into that cauldron of ideas and characters, add the aforementioned entities that want to “kill Death” and the lengths they are willing to go to achieve their ends. Give those entities a schism of sorts, just to make the situation more volatile, and combine with elements of sicence and “magic” and you have an exciting and extremely thought-provoking novel.
The Book of Elsewhere may be one of the best books of the year (it’s already gotten rave reviews from a number of outlets including the New York Times). It one of the most absorbing books I’ve read in a long time.
bilbo –
The Book of Elsewhere is a heady, philosophical and ultimately beautiful work that bends many genres into something that feels pretty unique. There’s an action story that’s a mystery, and it involves an immortal deer-pig that is maybe the closest thing the main character has to a friend (even though they’ve killed each other countless times over the millennia). Then there are first person historical chapters told by people who have encountered the immortal warrior, all of which are incredibly written and I am guessing based on arcane historical facts. Then there are second person chapters that deal with the immortal warrior’s brutal and primitive origins, but function to make you as a reader, feel what it’s like to be him as he dies and is reborn. All of these chapters ultimately form into something far deeper than an action story. It’s not for every type of reader, but if it’s for you like it was for me, it’s a feast.
colin harris –
Great book, will read again.
PierC –
If your starting point is that of a passionate of prehistory and archaic ages, the Book of Elsewhere can be a fun read- it was for me. After a few chapters I managed to avoid giving to the MC the features of Keanu Reeves and to seeing this as a script for a movie: I enjoyed it more this way.
I still think that it is going to be great on Netflix.
Dr. David R. Eyles –
One of three unreadable books that I have had to put down in over the last 50 years. If the philosophical meanderings in this book are any indication of the inner workings of the minds of the authors they are in need of significant help. The sentence structure is disjointed and there seems to be a need to let said sentences drag on and on and on and………..
Using abundant eclectic, ‘expensive’ words as if they were thrown at the wall to see if they would ‘stick’ does nothing but confuse the reader.
Still like Keanu as an actor——but stick to what you know.
Georgie –
Umm?? Was this book even edited? There are so many mistakes and errors throughout. The spacing and paragraphs are distorted.
So disappointed. DNF 20% in.