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By (author) El-Mohtar Amal; By (author) Gladstone Max
LGBTQWINNER OF THE HUGO AND NEBULA AWARDS: Two time-travelling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters – and fall in love in this thrilling and romantic book from award-winning authors Amal-El Mohtar and Max Gladstone.
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WINNER OF
Hugo Award
for Best Novella
Nebula Award for Best Novella
Reddit Stabby Award for Best Novella
British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novella
SHORTLISTED FOR
2020 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award
The Ray Bradbury Prize
Kitschies Red Tentacle Award
Kitschies Inky Tentacle
Brave New Words Award
Co-written by two award-winning writers, This Is How You Lose the Time War is an epic love story spanning time and space.
Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading.
Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future.
Except the discovery of their bond would mean death for each of them. There”s still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win that war. That”s how war works. Right?
”A fireworks display from two very talented storytellers” Madeline Miller, author of Circe
”An intimate and lyrical
tour of time, myth and history” John Scalzi, bestselling author of Old Man”s War
”Lyrical and vivid and bittersweet” Ann Leckie, Hugo Award-winning author of Ancillary Justice
”Rich and strange, a romantic tour through all of time and the multiverse” Martha Wells, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of The Murderbot Diaries
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This book has it all:
treachery and love, lyricism and gritty action, existential crisis and space-opera scope, not to mention time travelling superagents. Gladstone”s and El-Mohtar”s debut collaboration is
a fireworks display from two very talented storytellers
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An
intimate and lyrical tour of time, myth and history, with a
captivating conversation between characters – and authors.
Read it
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Lyrical and vivid and bittersweet. An
absolutely lovely read from two talented writers
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This is How You Lose the Time War is
rich and strange, a romantic tour through all of time and the multiverse, and
you shouldn”t miss a moment
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An
intense, poetic work
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Exquisitely crafted . . . Part epistolary romance, part
mind-blowing science fiction adventure, this
dazzling story unfolds bit by bit . . .
Full of fanciful ideas and poignant moments, weaving a tapestry stretching across the millennia and through multiple realities that”s anchored with
raw emotion and a genuine sense of wonder. This short novel
warrants multiple readings to fully unlock its complexities
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Spectacular . . . Poetry, disguised as genre fiction. I read several sections out loud – this is
prose that wants to be more than read. It wants to be heard and tasted
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If Iain M. Banks and Gerard Manley Hopkins had ever been able to collaborate on a science fiction project, well, it wouldn”t be half as much fun as this novella by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. There is
all the pleasure of a long
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