The Book of Elsewhere
Author: China Miéville and Keanu Reeves
Release: July 23, 2024
Tagline: A Novel
Publisher: Del Ray
Genre: Science Fiction, Action Adventure, Fantasy
ISBN-10: 0593446593
ISBN-13: 978-0593446591
Main Character(s): Unute, Diana, Keever, Caldwell, The Immortal Pig
Synopsis: 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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Quotes and Lines
“Insubordination’s a lesser evil than independence, I guess.” – B
You will only perceive your tools when they are broken…
I and all the others of the house had been given to ready for a party. When the carriages arrived I knew not the visages of those within but from the whispers of the household did I learn that this was Sir Thus and this Lady So and this Dowager Et and that Lord Cetera, and so on in such manner.
“Our culture is addicted to negativity, and that means being addicted to death. It’s a death culture. That’s what we have to break.” – Alam
Who knows what about whom and why? I can’t keep track. And I wish I had the option of not caring what’s going on right now.
I’ve seen a sphinx. I’ve seen stone that walks. I’ve seen the pillars of Iram. But I’ve never seen a person who knows what they want.
“Is that what you think?” Alam Said. “That he found us? It isn’t that hard, you know,” he said, “to put ideas in people’s heads. And make them think they’ve thought of them.”