This Is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar, 2019
Two rival time-travelling agents fall in love through letters hidden across history—a slender, lyrical war story about intimacy as sabotage.
Amal El-Mohtar
Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone wrote the novel by exchanging letters in character, each voicing one of the two correspondents.
Feels like longing, love and time.
What do you bring someone who has all of time?
I want to be a body for you. I want to chase you, find you, I want to be eluded and teased and adored; I want to be defeated and victorious—I want you to cut me, sharpen me. I want to drink tea beside you in ten years or a thousand. Flowers grow far away on a planet they’ll call Cephalus, and these flowers bloom once a century, when the living star and its black-hole binary enter conjunction.I want to fix you a bouquet of them, gathered across eight hundred thousand years, so you can draw our whole engagement in a single breath, all the ages we’ve shaped together. Books by Amal El-Mohtar
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