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This Is How You Lose the Time War - Paperback
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This Is How You Lose the Time War
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- Feels
- Romantic, Mind-bending, Melancholy
- Kind of story
- Time travel, Literary science fiction
- About
- Desire, War, Queer stories
- Pace
- Steady
- How dark
- 2 of 5. A little dark
- Romance
- At the heart of the story
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Complete the set: Amal El-Mohtar: two novellas
This Is How You Lose the Time War is co-written with Max Gladstone.
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Two rival agents fall in love across a war fought through time itself, told almost entirely in letters.
Shelf note: Under 200 pages, and most readers turn back to page one the moment they finish.
Red belongs to the Agency. Blue belongs to the Garden. They are the best operatives their sides have, sent up and down the strands of history to nudge events toward their faction's preferred future. They are supposed to be trying to kill each other.
Instead, Red finds a letter. Then writes one back.
What begins as taunting between enemies becomes something neither can afford, hidden in seeds and tea leaves and the rings of felled trees, passed across centuries. Both of them know exactly what discovery would cost.
Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards for Best Novella. El-Mohtar and Gladstone wrote it by passing the characters back and forth between them, and it shows in the best way: two distinct voices circling each other, getting closer with every exchange. Short enough to read in an evening, and people tend to reread it immediately.
Details
- Authors: Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781534430990
- Awards: Hugo Award (Best Novella), Nebula Award, Locus Award
Praise
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[An] exquisitely crafted tale... Part epistolary romance, part mind-blowing science fiction adventure, this dazzling story unfolds bit by bit, revealing layers of meaning as it plays with cause and effect, wildly imaginative technologies, and increasingly intricate wordplay...
Publishers Weekly
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