Winner of the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novella
Winner of The British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novella
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?
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781529405231
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
'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,' – Madeline Miller, author of The Song of Achilles.
'Sweet, hopeful, and unashamedly beautiful,' – SciFiNow.