Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity (Italian : La realtà non è come ci appare. La struttura elementare delle cose) is an illustrated book by Italian physicist Carlo Rovelli. The book discusses quantum gravity. It was first published in Italian in 2014 (before the author's best-seller Seven Brief Lessons on Physics). It was published in English in 2016 by which time the English translation of Seven Brief Lessons had already appeared.