KEANU REEVES & CHINA MIEVILLE - An Unlikely (but Perfect) Pair

THE SUPERSTAR ACTOR AND AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR WERE EACH OTHER'S BIGGEST FAN. NOW THEY'VE WRITTEN A BOOK TOGETHER

- LIZZ SCHUMER

When author China Miéville’s agent told him Keanu Reeves wanted to collaborate, Miéville thought it was too far-fetched to be a prank. “I think I kind of giggled,” says the award-winning fantasy and science fiction author, 51. “Why would someone think of that? That’s just so patently false. It had to be true.”

It was: Reeves says he fell in love with Miéville’s writing after picking up one of his short story collections, Three Moments of an Explosion. “I read it and read it and read it, and after each story, I was amazed and astounded and entertained and moved,” says Reeves, 59, chatting with People alongside Miéville via Zoom. “And so to come across a talent like that, one can only hope or dream to work with them.”

And so the two teamed up to create The Book of Elsewhere, a genre-bending journey following a warrior who wants to shed his immortality. It’s based on a character from