Keanu Reeves Wrote A Novel, And It Releases Next Week

Keanu Reeves: actor, person with excellent taste in motorcycles, and soon-to-be-published novelist. Best known for his work on the big screen and as the rebel rocker Johnny Silverhand in Cyberpunk 2077, Reeves has also co-authored a book with China Miéville, an award-winning writer of speculative fantasy books. The Book of Elsewhere–out soon on July 23 and priced at $21–is inspired by the Boom Studios comic-book series BRZRKR, which Reeves co-created with Matt Kindt and Ron Garney.

BRZRKR tells the story of an unkillable immortal warrior with a death wish, who works with a US black-ops group under the codename of B. In exchange for their help, B assists the group by carrying out dangerous missions for them. Imagine Deadpool if he were haunted by millennia of war, and you’ll have a good idea of what to expect from BRZRKR.

“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, and Death himself. These days, he’s known simply as ‘B,'” the plot synopsis for The Book of Elsewhere reads. “And he wants to be able to die. 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.”

If you’d like to check out the BRZRKR series, a few of the graphic-novel collections are available. It’s a pretty good series with action-packed art, as it examines the cost of immortality and what it’s like to fight a war with no end.

To get an idea of what to expect from The Book of Elsewhere, you can also check out Miéville’s previously published work, like the critically acclaimed entries in the Bas-Lag series that won him several Arthur C. Clarke Awards.