This is How You Lose the Time War

4.5 avg 849 votes

About this book

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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4.5/5 · 849 readers · 208 pages · ≈ 3 h 51 m · Moderate

How long does it take to read This is How You Lose the Time War?

About ≈ 3 h 51 m — 208 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.Typical novel≈ 5 h 56 mThis is How You Lose the Time War~3 h 51 m

How many pages is This is How You Lose the Time War?

208 pages in its most-read edition.Typical novel320This is How You Lose the Time War208

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

It sits on the Science Fiction, Fiction shelves.

Is This is How You Lose the Time War in the public domain?

No — it is still under copyright.

Who wrote This is How You Lose the Time War?

Amal El-Mohtar.

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