Bookish: What Lost and Star Trek Fans Will Love about J. J. Abrams' Book S.

J. J. Abrams — the creative mind behind the television series Alias, and Lost, and the Star Trek film prequels, and much more — has co-written his first novel with Doug Dorst. Simply titled S., it was published last month by Mulholland Books.

Though we haven't actually seen the book, Nathan Rostron and Natalie Zutter describe it for us: "The book comes in a sleek black slipcase emblazoned with a scripted S., but when you pull it out, you're holding what looks to be an old-school library book called Ship of Theseus — complete with pages that are yellowed with time and graffitied with notes in the margins — and a list of due dates stamped in the back. Take care riffling through the pages — you might displace the postcards, letters and news clippings that are tucked within them."

We're providing the publisher's synopsis of what the book is about, below, but those who have followed Abrams' work to date will want to know … "What Lost and Star Trek Fans Will Love about J. J. Abrams' Book S." by Nathan Rostron and Natalie Zutter for Bookish.

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S.
J. J. Abrams and Doug Dorst

One book. Two readers. A world of mystery, menace, and desire.

A young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger. Inside it are his margin notes, which reveal a reader entranced by the story and by its mysterious author. She responds with notes of her own, leaving the book for the stranger, and so begins an unlikely conversation that plunges them both into the unknown.

The book: Ship of Theseus, the final novel by a prolific but enigmatic writer named V. M. Straka, in which a man with no past is shanghaied onto a strange ship with a monstrous crew and launched onto a disorienting and perilous journey.

The writer: Straka, the incendiary and secretive subject of one of the world's greatest mysteries, a revolutionary about whom the world knows nothing apart from the words he wrote and the rumors that swirl around him.

The readers: Jennifer and Eric, a college senior and a disgraced grad student, both facing crucial decisions about who they are, who they might become, and how much they're willing to trust another person with their passions, hurts, and fears.