This Is How You Lose the Time War

paperback, 224 pages

Published March 17, 2020 by Gallery / Saga Press.

ISBN:: 978-1-5344-3099-0

(16 reviews)

Two time-traveling 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.

In the ashes of a dying world, Red finds a letter marked “Burn before reading. Signed, Blue.”

So begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents in a war that stretches through the vast reaches of time and space.

Red belongs to the Agency, a post-singularity technotopia. Blue belongs to Garden, a single vast consciousness embedded in all organic matter. Their pasts are bloody and their futures mutually exclusive. They have nothing in common—save that they’re the best, and they’re alone.

Now what began as a battlefield boast grows into a dangerous game, one both Red and Blue are determined to win. Because winning’s what you do in war. Isn’t it?

A tour de force collaboration from …

Two time-traveling 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.

In the ashes of a dying world, Red finds a letter marked “Burn before reading. Signed, Blue.”

So begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents in a war that stretches through the vast reaches of time and space.

Red belongs to the Agency, a post-singularity technotopia. Blue belongs to Garden, a single vast consciousness embedded in all organic matter. Their pasts are bloody and their futures mutually exclusive. They have nothing in common—save that they’re the best, and they’re alone.

Now what began as a battlefield boast grows into a dangerous game, one both Red and Blue are determined to win. Because winning’s what you do in war. Isn’t it?

A tour de force collaboration from two powerhouse writers that spans the whole of time and space.

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battlepoet reviewed This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar

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5 stars

I silently exploded with feelings while reading this on a family vacation. I can't wait to reread this and savour the text.

2020 update: My ereader has crapped out so I am reading an actual book now. Anyone who knows me personally may remember that I spent the end of 2019 recommending this book to anyone in sight. This is a beautiful, poetic, epistolary scifi about QUEER LOVE between two alien women who are spies on opposite sides of a time-traveling war. They write each other letters. It’s the most romantic thing I will ever read in my life. (I even got a small tattoo for this book!)

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