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This Is How You Lose the Time War
A Science Fiction Novel by Max Gladstone & Amal El-Mohtar
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Time Travel,
- Romantic Science Fiction,
- Epistolary
This book is for you if you're into...
- Epistolary sci-fi with secret letters across timelines
- Rival spies whose banter becomes forbidden romance
- Time travel wars fought by agents for future-shaping factions
From Little Stack
The Time War is being fought by the Agency and the Garden, futuristic civilizations and intelligences that use time travel to alter the past to tip the future in their favor. Agents Red (Agency) and Blue (Garden) start off as deadly rivals, sabotaging each others’ efforts in countless locations and timelines. Leaving little messages for the other is their way to taunt and tease, a very spy-esque thumbing of their nose to their defeated rival.
But as their letters turn from banter to true correspondence, then something more, this time travel spy thriller becomes a fascinating love story told through fragments and snippets of these two people’s lives. It’s almost Romeo and Juliet, but with time travel and a multiversal war as the background.
From award-winning authors Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone comes an enthralling, romantic novel spanning time and space about two time-traveling rivals who fall in love and must change the past to ensure their future.
Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandment 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, becomes something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future. Except the discovery of their bond would mean the death of each of them. There's still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win. That's how war works, right?
Cowritten by two beloved and award-winning sci-fi writers, This Is How You Lose the Time War is an epic love story spanning time and space.
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