HUGO AWARD WINNER: BEST NOVELLA NEBULA AND LOCUS AWARDS WINNER: BEST NOVELLA "[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). 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.
"Gorgeous! I absolutely loved this book. Went bonkers for it. The plot is complex and intrincated, but not too hard to follow, even though, as a sci-fi novel, it deals with some very complicated issues regarding the mechanics and consecuenses of time travel, but it does so in such a way that the science-y detalles are unimportant, and one as a reader carestía only for the action part, which is compelling as can be. The characters are beautifully written, dinamic and multi dimentional. As the story progresses, we watch them evolve and unravel in unexpected ways, and the time travel element allows to compare them constantly to the way they were a while ago. This is the perfect, bite-sized, cozy, stunning enemies to lovers! action packed and full of romance, the relationship between the characters is so well constructed it seems fated, so tender and sweet you'll need to see a dentist afterwards."