
The Book of Elsewhere
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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.
©2024 Keanu Reeves and China Miéville (P)2024 Random House AudioListeners also enjoyed...
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Critic reviews
“A philosophical, violent thriller about an immortal soldier pondering the nature of his existence, The Book of Elsewhere has an elegance that might surprise you for a pulp thriller. . . . [Miéville’s] presence as Reeves’ narrative collaborator . . . immediately makes it more interesting, even for those who aren't already fans of the comic.”—Polygon
"Action-packed, ultraviolent and morally ambiguous . . . a profoundly stylish and beautiful approach to the trials and tribulations of the ancient warrior who cannot die . . . an enjoyable action-mystery cut through with moments of existential melancholy . . . [the] brimful imagination and impeccable style make it a deeply pleasurable read.”—LA Times
“A surprisingly, even rattlingly good read . . . A blood-spattered, era-spanning action thriller, The Book of Elsewhere manages to lift and twist its unbelievably sanguinary source material into a meditation on the cyclical nature of violence.”—The Sunday Times
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In 1848, The Communist Manifesto was published by two émigrés from Germany. Marx and Engels' apocalyptic vision of an insatiable system that penetrates every corner of the world reduces every relationship to that of profit, and burst asunder the old forms of production and of politics. It is still a recognisable picture of our world—the vampiric energy of the system being once again highly contentious. This is a strikingly imaginative take on Marx and what his most haunting book has to say to us today.
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A great follow up to October
- By Amazon Customer on 01-18-23
By: China Miéville
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Keanu Reeves: Most Triumphant
- The Movies and Meaning of an Irrepressible Icon
- By: Alex Pappademas
- Narrated by: Alex Knox
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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In Keanu Reeves: Most Triumphant, cultural critic Alex Pappademas attempts to address Keanu’s unmatched eternality and the other big questions raised by his career arc. Sharp, funny, deeply researched, and fully celebratory of the enigmatic actor, this is the first book to take Keanu’s whole deal as seriously as it deserves. Yes, even Johnny Mnemonic, where Keanu mind melds with a dolphin. Along the way, Pappademas reveals the lessons we can learn from Keanu about Hollywood, our broader culture, and even life itself.
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Worth Your Time, Even If You Aren't a Big Fan
- By jtimothyk on 06-09-22
By: Alex Pappademas
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October
- The Story of the Russian Revolution
- By: China Mieville
- Narrated by: John Banks
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
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The renowned fantasy and science fiction writer China Mieville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution, and here, on the centenary of the revolution, he provides his own distinctive take on its history. In February 1917, in the midst of bloody war, Russia was still an autocratic monarchy: nine months later it became the first socialist state in world history. How did this unimaginable transformation take place? How was a ravaged and backward country, swept up in a desperately unpopular war, rocked by not one but two revolutions?
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The 20th Century's New Weird History
- By Darwin8u on 08-12-17
By: China Mieville
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Embassytown
- By: China Mieville
- Narrated by: Susan Duerden
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
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China Miéville doesn’t follow trends, he sets them. Relentlessly pushing his own boundaries as a writer - and in the process expanding the boundaries of the entire field - with Embassytown, Miéville has crafted an extraordinary novel that is not only a moving personal drama but a gripping adventure of alien contact and war. In the far future, humans have colonized a distant planet, home to sentient beings famed for a language unique in the universe, one that only a few altered human ambassadors can speak....
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must hear to fully appreciate.
- By Don Gilbert on 01-05-12
By: China Mieville
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Keanu Reeves is Not in Love with You
- The Murky World of Online Romance Fraud
- By: Becky Holmes
- Narrated by: Becky Holmes
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
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Featuring first-hand accounts of victims, examples of scripts used by fraudsters, a look into the psychology of fraud and of course plenty of Becky's hysterical interactions with scammers, this is a must-listen for anyone who needs a reminder that Keanu Reeves is NOT in love with them.
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Be wary of racist tropes and inflammatory anecdotes
- By Alan Weinstein on 05-30-24
By: Becky Holmes
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Three Moments of an Explosion
- Stories
- By: China Miéville
- Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith, Bruce Mann, Hillary Huber, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
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London awakes one morning to find itself besieged by a sky full of floating icebergs. Destroyed oil rigs, mysteriously reborn, clamber from the sea and onto the land, driven by an obscure purpose. An anatomy student cuts open a cadaver to discover impossibly intricate designs carved into a corpse’s bones—designs clearly present from birth, bearing mute testimony to . . . what?
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Reading Miéville is both Delicious AND Disturbing
- By Darwin8u on 08-13-15
By: China Miéville
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The City & The City
- By: China Mieville
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
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When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borl ú of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates, the evidence points to conspiracies far stranger and more deadly than anything he could have imagined. Borl must travel from the decaying Beszel to the only metropolis on Earth as strange as his own.
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Reviews, Dishonesty and The Emperor's New Clothes
- By Robert on 01-27-13
By: China Mieville
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A Spectre, Haunting
- By: China Miéville
- Narrated by: China Miéville
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
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In 1848, THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO was published by two émigrés from Germany. Marx and Engels' apocalyptic vision of an insatiable system that penetrates every corner of the world reduces every relationship to that of profit, and burst asunder the old forms of production and of politics. It is still a recognisable picture of our world–the vampiric energy of the system being once again highly contentious.
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Brilliant analysis
- By Richard Gilbert on 06-22-23
By: China Miéville
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Looking for Jake
- Stories
- By: China Miéville
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley, Enn Reitel, Gildart Jackson, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
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What William Gibson did for science fiction, China Miéville has done for fantasy, shattering old paradigms with fiercely imaginative works of startling, often shocking, intensity. Now from this brilliant writer comes a groundbreaking collection of stories, many of them previously unavailable in the United States, and including four never-before-published tales - one set in Miéville’s signature fantasy world of New Crobuzon.
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Graze Into It
- By Tim on 07-06-13
By: China Miéville
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Veniss Underground
- A Novel
- By: Jeff VanderMeer
- Narrated by: Ron Butler, Scott Brick, Emily Woo Zeller, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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Set in the mysterious and magical city of Veniss, a surreal metropolis that sits over an underground labyrinth of tunnels and mines. In this tale, epic and mythological in scope, VanderMeer takes the listener below the surface of the earth to the dark and decadent future. It’s a world where Living Artists craft works out of biological material, and humans are either tossed out or recycled into something wholly unrecognizable.
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A great follow up to Ambergris
- By Emmitt on 08-06-23
By: Jeff VanderMeer
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Out of the Ruins
- By: Preston Grassmann, China Miéville, Emily St. John Mandel, and others
- Narrated by: Alex Boyles, Chelsea Stephens, Heath Miller, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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A fresh post-apocalyptic anthology: the end of the world seen through the salvage and ruins, featuring Emily St. John Mandel, Carmen Maria Machado, and more.
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More misses than hits.
- By Jimmyjoejangles on 04-30-22
By: Preston Grassmann, and others
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The Last Gifts of the Universe
- A Novel
- By: Riley August
- Narrated by: Robyn Holdaway, Ayesha Antoine, Chris Thompson
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
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Scout is an Archivist who scours the dead worlds of the cosmos for their last gifts: interesting technology, cultural rituals–anything left behind that might be useful to Home and their survival. During an excavation on a lifeless planet, Scout unearths something unbelievable: a surviving message from an alien who witnessed the world-ending entity thousands of years ago.
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Underwhelming
- By Geoff Calhoun on 10-18-24
By: Riley August
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The Deep Sky
- A Novel
- By: Yume Kitasei
- Narrated by: Sarah Skaer
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
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It is the eve of Earth’s environmental collapse. A single ship carries humanity’s last hope: eighty elite graduates of a competitive program, who will give birth to a generation of children in deep space. But halfway to a distant but livable planet, a lethal bomb kills three of the crew and knocks The Phoenix off course. Asuka, the only surviving witness, is an immediate suspect.
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The synopsis was better than the story
- By Faisal Sultan on 07-22-23
By: Yume Kitasei
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- Eric H.
- 08-11-24
Unexpected Delight
I got this book on a whim, simply because I am constantly impressed by Keanu Reeves and wished to see if this effort of his would continue that trend. I am happy to report that it does. Well written, complex yet understandable, and a story that kept me looking forward to more. I plan to listen again, just to absorb more of the tale. The reading was exemplary, with characters easily distinguishable from each other. I can recommend this book without reservation, and envy the first timer’s experience.
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- Bilal Khalifeh
- 08-15-24
A Great Read
Started really great and the plot moved along beautifully. I live the interplay between past and present. lost me a little at the end, but all in all a worthy listen.
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- robert dolloff
- 10-08-24
Amazing visuals but it can be hard to follow.
This book is amazing. At times because I’ve been listening at work it was hard to follow because of its jumping in perspective and timeline but amazing. The visuals are dramatic and the performance was well read.
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- Kindle Customer
- 10-28-24
What a journey
It is not everyday that one comes upon a new and unique story so well written and performed.
I believe that this will appeal to any palate, if genres were flavors, because the theme and the delivery are so well thought and done that I fail to detect a scenario in which a person will not appreciate it.
A life cursed and gifted to never end, to never have children, to never forget and to watch all you ever see and meet die and wither.
What would you do with such power? Become the emperor of mankind? Guide humanity through time over eons, steering us all towards some goal as the hidden hand? What great work could inspire one to continue without despair?
I don't know, but I shall think upon it.
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- Old ANDY
- 07-31-24
I wrote 3 fantastic recommendations for this book
And all 3 were removed for whatever reasons. I just noticed there were only 330 reviews for this book towards the end six or seven of them are duplicates. Yes I took the time to scroll through all the garbage. I’m a disabled Vet with nothing better to do. So don’t judge.
I gave this book fantastic reviews. As a veteran I absolutely related to the warrior theme(even though I was only a mechanic). I think did anybody who gave this book a bad review didn’t understand it.
In any rate I’m not gonna waste any more time of mine and your Because this will probably be deleted too, the mega corporations can’t stand an independent thought
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- Erin N. Zerbe
- 09-19-24
Stuck to my chest…
I’ve been thinking on this book for a long while after finishing it. I think it is one I will return to many times. The writing is compelling, and the narrative is complex and engaging. But I think the larger themes of the story are what keep replaying long after I put the book down. I cannot wait to read more works from this author, and I will definitely be checking out the BRZRKR comic series too!
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- Elena Rodriguez
- 09-09-24
I enjoyed it
I've heard mixed reviews. I liked it. I like world building, and there certainly was that.
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- Ziv Kitro
- 11-18-24
An interesting take on immorality
I’ll probably jump to read the comic books now, I was interested in reading this due to China’s involvement. The book could have been a bit shorter, but overall it’s interesting and a good fun.
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- Mac
- 02-10-25
Amazing voices
I loved that there were so many different voices for the characters which brought the story to life and kept your attention.
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- Will Cathcart
- 08-23-24
Perfection
Those inclined to criticize this work are bitter because they sense its greatness and hate that they do not understand. I would feel the same had I not the patience and aptitude to enter the world of this novel and remain there until the end. I look forward to returning, for it is a fine and timeless work of ambition, intellect, and a message that is truly divine and mortal as it gets. This is not some pretentious puzzle, though it is remarkable in its scope of knowledge. It is a product not of ambiguity, but masters at the peak of their game. Most of all, this audiobook is a hell of a lot of fun. I thank all of those involved in its creation and production. I hope such collaborations continue. Clearly, those involved knew they had stumbled upon something special. Their execution is flawless. And somehow, just by listening, I feel a part of something special.
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