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Queer Science FictionTime Travel

This is How You Lose the Time War

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  • 2019 first published
  • 208 pages
  • ★ 4.1 (29 ratings)
  • 14 editions
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Published in 2019, This is How You Lose the Time War is a queer science fiction and time-travel fiction novel by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. It takes readers to London and Atlantis in The whole of time and space. Key subjects include Time-traveling, Epistolary, LGBT and time travel.

Open Library readers give it an average of 4.1 out of 5 from 29 ratings, and 409 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 14 editions across 3 languages. It appeared on the New York Times Trade Fiction Paperback bestseller list in 2023.

It runs to roughly 208 pages — 3–4 hours of reading at an average pace.

About This is How You Lose the Time War

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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Era

  • The whole of time and space

Subjects

  • Science fiction
  • Time-traveling
  • Epistolary
  • LGBT
  • Time travel

Quick answers

Who wrote This is How You Lose the Time War?

This is How You Lose the Time War was written by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone and first published in 2019.

What genre is This is How You Lose the Time War?

It is usually shelved as Queer Science Fiction and Time Travel.

How long is This is How You Lose the Time War?

The median edition has 208 pages, about 3–4 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to This is How You Lose the Time War?

Readers who like it often enjoy One Last Stop, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency and The Book of Life.

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