Keanu's new 350-page sci-fi novel sounds pretty damn metal
Reeves' new novel, The Book Of Elsewhere, was co-written with China Miéville, and features an immortal warrior hunted by a "magical deer-pig"
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Today, in “Yeah, sure, Keanu, we’ll read your book” news: Keanu Reeves has co-written a new 352-page science fiction novel about the existential struggle of an immortal man who does black-ops work for the U.S. government, while also being pursued across time by a magical deer-pig. (Don’t look at us like that, we took that nigh-verbatim from The New York Times.) Reeves co-wrote the novel with acclaimed sci-fi author China Miéville, because, guess what, when you’re Keanu Reeves, you can just call up the Perdido Street Station guy and say, “Hey, let’s turn my comic book into a novel.”
(Indeed, the new novel, The Book Of Elsewhere, is set in the universe of Reeves’ BRZRKR comic book series, which he created with writer Matt Kindt. It all apparently grew out of ideas Reeves had about an “immortal warrior” around about when he was filming John Wick: Chapter 2, because god knows why that franchise would put a man in mind of a functionally unkillable superman. Published by Boom! Studios after a very successful Kickstarter, the comic actually reviewed pretty well and sold crazy numbers, leading to a bunch of plans for animes and films.)