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The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves & China Miéville

And so Unute endures across time, his existence leaving scorch marks throughout human history, his lifespan only occasionally interrupted by the appearance of a homicidal immortal pig. …

The Book of Elsewhere
The Book of Elsewhere

A simple tale of a man (or a demi-god) who has roamed the planet for eighteen thousand years. His ultimate purpose is unknowable. He dies and is then reborn, sometimes where he fell, other times he is reborn … elsewhere.

We join Unute (or B as he’s sometimes called) early in the 21st century, working for a clandestine special forces unit where is talent for superhuman mayhem and invulnerability are put to the right use by the right side – who are less concerned than they should be that Unute often kills members of his own team during his occasional berserker rages.

And so Unute endures across time, his existence leaving scorch marks throughout human history, his lifespan only occasionally interrupted by the appearance of a homicidal immortal pig. …

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Antimatter Blues by Edward Ashton

This is the sequel to Mickey7 which I read earlier this year, but this time, I showed enough restraint to read a couple of other books before attempting it. If I really enjoy a book, I sometimes dive straight into the follow-up, and that usually doesn’t end well.

Not this time, and I’d like to think that’s perhaps one reason why I enjoyed Antimatter Blues even more than the first book.

Antimatter Blues
Antimatter Blues

Set a few years after the colonists’ arrival on Niflheim, Mickey’s life has settled into what could laughingly described as normalcy: he’s resigned his position as the colony’s expendable – meaning he no longer has to sacrifice himself by fixing the antimatter reactor or carrying bombs into the lair of the indigenous insectoid population; he’s settled into a long-term relationship with a pilot; and he’s managed to land a part-time role cleaning out the rabbit pens (aside from dying when ordered to, Mickey isn’t really qualified to do anything else). But then he starts to notice something rather odd: he occasionally spots other copies of him near the antimatter reaction chamber. It appears that new versions of him are being run off, and whoever is making them isn’t even polite enough to wait for him to die first. …

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