The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves & China Miéville
(Del Rey, 2024)
Reviewed by Stuart Carter
Hearing about The Book of Elsewhere, my first thought was: “A Keanu Reeves comic being rewritten as a novel by China Miéville?! DUDE! Someone deserves a pay rise at the publisher!” But, my, what a strange chimera of a book this is—as you might expect of a child born of two such different fathers.
In case you didn’t already know, The Book of Elsewhere is an unexpected collaboration between the famous US film star and the famous UK fantasy writer: one known (loved, even?) for his, shall we say, lack of thespian introspection; the other known (loved, even?) for bringing revolutionary politics into contemporary Fantasy.
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