British Science Fiction Association Awards
This Is How You Lose the Time War
An epistolary SF novella in which letters between two enemies turn into love amid a war across time.
Work Information
Letters become weapons, and later become a kind of salvation.
Moving back and forth through time and war, the novella delicately traces how words become understanding of the other person.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Saga Press
- Published
- 2020-03-17
- Pages
- 224 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 13.97 x 1.52 x 20.96 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781534430990
- ISBN-10
- 1534430997
- Price
- 3183 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Science Fiction & Fantasy/Fantasy
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.
Amal 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 of The 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 and The New York Times . Her fiction has most recently appeared on Tor.com and Uncanny Magazine , and in anthologies such as The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories and The 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. Max Gladstone is the author of the Hugo-nominated Craft Sequence , which Patrick Rothfuss called “stupefyingly good.” The sixth book, Ruin of Angels , was released this September. Max’s interactive mobile game Choice of the Deathless was nominated for the XYZZY Award, and his critically acclaimed short fiction has appeared on Tor.com and in Uncanny Magazine , and in anthologies such as XO Orpheus: Fifty New Myths and The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales . John Crowley described Max as “a true star of twenty first century fantasy.” Max has sung in Carnegie Hall and was once thrown from a horse in Mongolia.
Reviews
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here cause of bigolas dickolas
a friend recommended it to me and if it is as good as they say i can’t wait to read it ♥️♥️
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This is How I Lost 198 Minutes of My Life
You like sci-fi right? If you also like overly flamboyant gushing love letters between two strangers you're never given any reason to care for, then have at it. Otherwise win the time war for yourself by doing something else. Written as an exchange between two time-traveling agents, Red and Blue, on two opposing sides of a war that spans eternity, in prose that is fittingly Purple. Highly abstract and open ended, this will be an enjoyable diversion for people with the time to dedicate to less conventional science fiction.
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Mind-bendingly brilliant and cell-sizzlingly romantic.
Mind-bendingly brilliant and cell-sizzlingly romantic. It's the kind of romance strong enough to break not just this world, but all of them. If you're reading along in this one and you think, "This is too confusing, and I don't get it, I'm going to put it down." Just...don't. I'll tell you a small secret: you don't have to understand the worldbuilding for this story to take hold in you. You don't have to understand what the sides are fighting for, or even what shapes the bodies are that either of the characters wear. All you have to understand is the heart of what matters. The answer that both characters are discovering, right along with you, as the story unfolds. Once they decide what's actually important, they'll live for it, die for it, betray for it, crack the world and let it burn to ashes at their feet rather than let it go. And so will you.
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Perfect
Op tijd geleverd en in goede staat, dankjewel.
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Gorgeous sapphic time travel story
Like many people, I first heard about this book when legitimate and professional news readers had to repeatedly say the username "Bigolas Dickolas Wolfwood" on TV and over radio. I remember finding the whole thing utterly hilarious back then, and mentally added the book to my 'to read' list. It was actually much later that a close friend mentioned the book again as something she thought I would like that I actually went out and bought a copy to read. I wish I hadn't waited so long honestly, because I think this might now be one of my absolute favourite books. The story is a scifi, written in the epistolary style between two agents of rival factions in a time war. It starts with them taunting one another, then the language begins to soften, and it's done so artfully that sometimes you don't notice and have to go back a letter and read it again to see the subtle changes in language. It's so poetically written as well, truly lyrical by the end, and the idea and themes are so clever and well executed throughout, I feel like I'm going to re-read this book hundreds of times and still fall in love with it all over again. I've got to admit, usually when I write book reviews I tend not to worry too much about spoilers, simply because I tend to read books that have been out for a few years already. This time I'm being deliberately vague though, because I really think this book is better if you go into it with no expectations. It takes so many twists and turns in the narrative and the ending honestly broke me - I genuinely sobbed all through the last forty pages, I'm not kidding. It's a true enemies to lovers sapphic romance, written in the most dazzling way, with so much poignant yearning dripping from the pages that it destroyed me and healed me over and over again as I read it. It's not a big book, by the way. I think it took me four or so hours to read? I would recommend this book to anyone really, but especially people who enjoy clever narration and beautiful wordplay. I'm excited to read it again!
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one of the best i've ever read
beautifully written and deeply moving. absolute must-read for anyone and everyone.
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I probably have to read it again ...
As all State: beautiful prose, a terrific story, romance and love. But that’s not it. I read it in one go; easy, as it’s not a big book. But I’m unsure if I got it, first time round. Most of it, sure. But there’s a feeling of ... nah. Not 100%. Good reading, you will start to live red en blue, no doubt. Why do I have the feeling this is about just one person?