This Is How You Lose the Time War
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This Is How You Lose the Time War
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Narrated by:
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Cynthia Farrell
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Emily Woo Zeller
About this listen
Winner of the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novella, the Reddit Stabby Award for Best Novella AND The British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novella
Two time-travelling 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.
Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant 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, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future.
Except the discovery of their bond would mean death for each of them. There's still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win that war. That's how war works. Right?
©2019 Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (P)2019 Simon & SchusterWhat listeners say about This Is How You Lose the Time War
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- Anonymous User
- 14-12-2021
Incredible story read by incredible actors
The narrators bring new life to the characters, I've listened to this audiobook more times than I've ever read the book, because it's amazing
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- George Theodoridis
- 12-04-2022
Writing to die for
Superbly written. The literary fiction end of sci fi.
Poetic. Luscious emotional tones. Yet sitting squarely in the genre.
Deserved winner of awards.
I will read anything i now find by them.
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- MsttyS
- 19-03-2021
I keep going back for more...
I have listened to this book at least three times and am now into my fourth! It is beautiful, brutal, abstract and delicious.
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- Miss M. Hannan
- 23-07-2024
Unexpected, beautiful, engrossing
Beautiful love story told in correspondence between two people from future societies. Not what I expected at all. listen in one sitting for best results.
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- Kath70
- 28-08-2024
Weird but beautiful prose
I nearly stopped listening early on. The first half was beautiful poetry but kind of nonsensical. It improved and I finished it but I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone unless they were the art sort.
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- Mpj
- 25-11-2024
Great story
What a great story told through a different medium style. That's the catch of this book and it's a welcome one. The narrators are perfect and I can imagine audiobook is the best option for consumption.
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- Dr
- 23-08-2021
Too much of a good thing?
I prefer poetry as a garnish to good prose, rather than as the main course. This novella feels like a labour of love on the authors' part (excuse the pun), but the constant torrent of concocted images and literary devices becomes mind numbing.
The last quarter of the book, where the sci-fi theme becomes more than a romantic back-drop, pushes this book from a miss to an almost thumbs-up.
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- Anna
- 14-03-2023
Weird but good
A bit strange to get into but intriguing once you get started and I had to know how it ended
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- Anonymous User
- 29-12-2024
A beautiful thing
Kinda incomprehensible, but it’s such gorgeous writing I didn’t care. I just fell into the prose and drifted along with it. What a delicious ride.
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- Kindle Customer
- 07-01-2021
Fantastic
Compelling, poetic and exciting. A great concept executed beautifully. Also, not overly long. Not just for scifi fans either.
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