Keanu Reeves and China Miéville have written a four-handed fantasy book

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Keanu Reeves hasn’t had enough of having reemerged as a magnet at the box office with the John Wick saga. Nor having sold hundreds of thousands of copies from the comic series ‘BRZRKR’, co-written with Matt Kindt and illustrated by Ron Garney, from which will come a film in which he will star and a two-season series on Netflix. Nor, simply, with being Keanu Reeves. The actor has given a surprise today to his followers… and to those of the partner of his new adventure, by announcing that A fantasy novel will appear next summer written in four hands by himself and by China Miéville, the (also magnetic, on the other hand) author of ‘weird’ fantasy books like ‘The City and the City’, ‘Lost Street Station’ or ‘Embassytown’.

Also set in the world of ‘BRZRKR’, starring an immortal warrior over several centuries, ‘The Book of Elsewhere’, Reeves’s first novel, which shares credits equally with Miéville, It will be published next July 23 in the US by Del Rey and in the UK by Cornerstone, both imprints of the Penguin Random House group. Although there is no announced date or confirmation as to whether the book has already been contracted, the usual publisher of China Miéville in Spanish is the Nova label, also from Penguin Random House, which precisely has a reissue of the now out-of-print ‘Embassytown’ coming up. Although, on the other hand, the comics publisher in Spain is precisely a competing label, Planeta Cómics.

The first synopses of the book present it as an epic “about ancient powers, modern wars and an outcast who cannot die”, the B. of ‘BRZKRK’, which according to the Waterstone bookstore network, which has already started pre-sales, combines “the best-selling instincts of Keanu Reeves with the cerebral literary style of China Mieville.”

In their respective promotional statements on the occasion of the announcement, Reeves and Miéville have exchanged compliments. “China did exactly what I expected: they presented a clear architecture for the story and how they wanted to play with the world of ‘BRZKR’, a world that I love so much. I was excited by their vision and am honored to be part of this collaborative process” , the actor has declared. “Sometimes the best games are those played with other people’s toys. It was an honor, a shock and a delight when Keanu invited me to play. But I could never have predicted how generous he would be with the toys he has spent so much time doing.” time creating, how happy he is to experiment together, how open he would be to a true collaboration,” noted Miéville. So, one senses, perhaps the four-handed thing could be reconsidered, and leave it at 2+1 in favor of Miéville.

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Ben Brusey, editorial director of Century & Del Rey, congratulated himself on having signed “a dream couple of writers”, two “masterful storytellers who have excited, surprised and won the hearts and minds of audiences and readers for decades. ” “From the beginning, ‘BRZKR’ has been unlike any other modern comic book franchise, and we are thrilled to partner with Del Rey to expand the visionary world of Keanu Reeves into the medium of prose with groundbreaking author China Miéville,” he said. added Filip Sablik, president of the comic’s publisher, BOOM! Studies.

Readers of China Miéville’s ‘weird’ fantasy considered him lost to their cause since the publication of ‘The last days of New Paris’ in 2017. Since then he had focused on his political side (he has been active for years in the British extra-parliamentary left) with ‘October’ (Akal), an account of the Soviet revolution from an openly Trotskyist point of view or, this year, ‘A specter, haunting’, on the Communist Manifesto.



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