This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

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Fiction – Science Fiction – Time Travel – Romance\nPublished: 3\/17\/2020 \n(Originally Published 7\/16\/2019 in Hardcover)\nFrom 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. Theres still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win. Thats how war works, right?Cowritten by two beloved and award-winning sci-fi writers,This Is How You Lose the Time Waris an epic love story spanning time and space.\n* HUGO AWARD WINNER: BEST NOVELLA * NEBULA AND LOCUS AWARDS WINNER: BEST NOVELLA *\nAUTHOR BIO:\nAmal El-Mohtar is an award-winning author, editor, and critic. Her short story \”Seasons of Glass and Iron\” won the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards and was a finalist for the World Fantasy, Sturgeon, Aurora, and Eugie Foster awards. She is the author ofThe Honey Month, a collection of poetry and prose written to the taste of twenty-eight different kinds of honey, and contributes criticism to NPR Books andThe New York Times. Her fiction has most recently appeared onTorandUncanny Magazine, and in anthologies such asThe Djinn Falls in Love amp; Other StoriesandThe Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales.She is presently pursuing a PhD at Carleton University and teaches creative writing at the University of Ottawa. She can be found online at @Tithenai.\nMax Gladstone is the author of the Hugo-nominatedCraft Sequence, which Patrick Rothfuss called \”stupefyingly good.\” The sixth book,Ruin of Angels, was released September 2017. Max’s interactive mobile game Choice of the Deathless was nominated for the XYZZY Award, and his critically acclaimed short fiction has appeared onTorand inUncanny Magazine, and in anthologies such asXO Orpheus: Fifty New MythsandThe Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales. John Crowley described Max as \”a true star of 21st-century fantasy.\” Max has sung in Carnegie Hall and was once thrown from a horse in Mongolia.\n[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…This short novel warrants multiple readings to fully unlock its complexities. Publishers Weekly(starred review)\n\”This book has it all: treachery and love, lyricism and gritty action, existential crisis and space-opera scope, not to mention time traveling superagents. Gladstone’s and El-Mohtar’s debut collaboration is a fireworks display from two very talented storytellers.\” -Madeline Miller, Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction\n\”A twisting, sapphic time travel fantasy love story that never stops surprising: El-Mohtar and Gladstone have written the ultimate in enemies-to-lovers romance. -Booklist, Starred Review