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This is how you lose the time war

by El-Mohtar, Amal,

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Summary
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.
Published Reviews
Booklist Review: "Red is a time-traveling agent who rebraids strands to help the Agency, a world of tech and logic. Blue is an agent who rebraids for the Garden, a community rooted in organic matter. They have been doing and undoing each other's work for years when Blue leaves Red the first letter. The two female spies battle across the strands, sabotaging each other's missions with increasing subtlety and skill, and leaving each other letters contained in the taste of sumac, in the pattern of a fabric's weave, in the flow of lava over Atlantis, in a piece of cod hidden within a seal. What unfolds is a twisting, sapphic time travel fantasy love story that never stops surprising: El-Mohtar and Gladstone have written the ultimate in enemies-to-lovers romance, but with an intricate layer of lush, uncanny descriptions of the fantastic strands the agents are shifting; not to mention a careful net of time travel and parallel universes. This suspenseful novel is a superb realization of a difficult concept bulging with details: a time travel rival-secret-agent epistolary romance interspersed with descriptions of fascinating secret missions. Readers will reach the end and want to turn back to the start.--Leah von Essen Copyright 2019 Booklist"
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Publisher's Weekly Review: "In this exquisitely crafted tale, two special agents from competing factions forge an unexpected relationship through messages left behind as they wage a secret war across space and time. Red, who represents a society dominated by technology and artificial intelligences, and Blue, the product of a biological mass consciousness, must never-can never-meet, even as they work to secure the future for their masters. Instead, they communicate in hundreds of different ways, their words hidden beneath layers of subtlety and deception, in direct defiance of every rule they've ever followed. As taunts and challenges gradually give way to endearments and secrets, the two women must determine their true roles in the unending time war. 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. El-Mohtar (The Honey Month) and Gladstone (the Craft Sequence) pack their narrative full of fanciful ideas and poignant moments, weaving a tapestry stretching across the millennia and through multiple realities that's anchored with raw emotion and a genuine sense of wonder. This short novel warrants multiple readings to fully unlock its complexities. Agent: DongWon Song, Howard Morhaim Literary. (July) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved."
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Subjects Time travel -- Fiction.
Electronic books.
Time-travel fiction.
Science fiction.
Novels.
Publisher [Place of publication not identified] :Gallery / Saga Press2019.
Contributors Gladstone, Max, author.
OverDrive, Inc.
Language English
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ISBN 9781534431010
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