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Saga Press (New York, 2019). 1st edition, 1st printing. 208 pages. $19.99.
Description
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.
Media reviews
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.
User reviews
LibraryThing member Sammelsurium
Tell me if this sounds interesting: there's a character named Red and a character named Blue. Red works for a technologically advanced organization and uses technology and makes technology-related metaphors. Blue works for an plant-focused organization and uses plants and makes plant-related
I hope that does sound interesting, because that's most of what the book is. Besides those surface-level traits, there's not much else to grab onto. The organizations the characters belong to are almost entirely the same, except that one of them decants its agents and the other one grows them. The main characters themselves have little to differentiate them from one another, other than the fact that one is red and the other is blue. Their actions as soldiers in the time war are largely page-filler between receiving letters from one another, heavy on set-dressing but quite forgettable. The letters aren't anything noteworthy either. The main characters' narrative voices are indistinguishable, making it difficult to tell which one is even writing at any given moment (until they start calling their beloved pomegranate or something like that). Though the letters themselves are written on unique materials--a jar of water, a seed--they all have fairly similar contents, using flowery language to say that Red is red and Blue is blue.
This Is How You Lose the Time War is almost delightful in its simplicity. It's so simple that if you cut the whole book down to a paragraph, it probably wouldn't lose anything, because its premise contains everything notable about it. It says that love is passionate and war is hell like those are shocking new ideas, when I'm not sure I've ever read a book so dedicated to not doing anything to surprise the reader. Its literary-sounding language can't hide the fact that it completely lacks the complexity and sense of curiosity that make literature interesting. It's not a book I recommend to anyone.
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metaphors. When they fall in love, Red gives Blue nicknames related to the color blue. In re Blue gives Red nicknames related to the color red. I hope that does sound interesting, because that's most of what the book is. Besides those surface-level traits, there's not much else to grab onto. The organizations the characters belong to are almost entirely the same, except that one of them decants its agents and the other one grows them. The main characters themselves have little to differentiate them from one another, other than the fact that one is red and the other is blue. Their actions as soldiers in the time war are largely page-filler between receiving letters from one another, heavy on set-dressing but quite forgettable. The letters aren't anything noteworthy either. The main characters' narrative voices are indistinguishable, making it difficult to tell which one is even writing at any given moment (until they start calling their beloved pomegranate or something like that). Though the letters themselves are written on unique materials--a jar of water, a seed--they all have fairly similar contents, using flowery language to say that Red is red and Blue is blue.
This Is How You Lose the Time War is almost delightful in its simplicity. It's so simple that if you cut the whole book down to a paragraph, it probably wouldn't lose anything, because its premise contains everything notable about it. It says that love is passionate and war is hell like those are shocking new ideas, when I'm not sure I've ever read a book so dedicated to not doing anything to surprise the reader. Its literary-sounding language can't hide the fact that it completely lacks the complexity and sense of curiosity that make literature interesting. It's not a book I recommend to anyone.
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LibraryThing member rivkat
Through time and alternate realities, Red and Blue chase each other and fall in love against the wishes of their superiors, sending letters to each other in the bubbles in boiling water and the bones of animals sent to kill. It was too internal for me—the people who died around them seemed
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irrelevant; the time war was pointless as far as I could tell. But if you like weird love stories and trippy imagery, it might work for you. Show Less
LibraryThing member Othemts
This novella features letters exchanged by a pair of agents - Red and Blue - on opposite sides of a war where they each travel through time to manipulate events in a way to harm the opposing side. The initially snarky and boastful letters soften over time as Red and Blue realize they are falling in
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love. The novel relies on poetic language and experimental writing styles (the authors wrote their sections of the book in response to one another much like the characters). Call me a philistine, but for all that creativity, I still found the book to be rather boring. Show Less
LibraryThing member Andrewfm
You lose by starting in the first place.
LibraryThing member fpagan
It's as if this little novel were supposed to be some kind of sick joke -- just 200 (short) pages of verbiage alternating between letters (epistles) that have very little apparent point and narratives that make very little apparent sense (and are often extremely violence-permeated). It gets a big
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LibraryThing member ronincats
This was a very strange book. It's basically a love story between two entities that develops as they encounter each other up and down the time lines on opposite sides and grow to respect each other and then more. Told mostly through letters to each other sent by many original and creative means and
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media, since their superiors would view any contact with justifiable suspicion. The two authors apparently each took on one of the characters. Because of the structure, it was hard for me to lose myself in the story and, despite the sf trappings, it really is lyrical romantic writing for the most part. Points given for originality, points deleted for the lack of narrativium, verdict undecided. Show Less
LibraryThing member whitreidtan
My daughter is a fan of time travel so when I saw this novella, I decided, as any good mom would, that I would get it for her and read it myself when she finished it. I should have taken note that she handed it back to me with a shrug and a "You can keep it." Not the world's biggest endorsement.
On a dying world, an operative from the Agency finds a letter from Garden's agent. Red and Blue work for different entities in this all out war. They are supposed to be sworn enemies. Over vast quantities of time and space, traveling through different realities, these two post-human women have come across each other again and again, each agent trying to foil her opposite. Red and Blue slip through time backwards and forwards to make large and small impacts that will win battles for their respective sides and ultimately win the war. They are each other's equal and after catching sight of one another once upon a time, Blue writes to Red, offering respect and gratitude for the deadly game they have been engaging in. As they weave through time, they exchange more and more letters, offering tiny bits of their reality to each other and ultimately falling deeply in love, despite fighting for opposing sides. If they are found out, they cannot possibly survive.
The details of the world Red and Blue live in, many stranded as it seems to be, are left hazy and indistinct. Red and Blue themselves are also indistinct, giving no real sense of their characters beyond their desperate yearning for each other. Plot is minimal. All of this gives the entire novella an otherworldly, dream-like feel that can be frustrating to read. The language is lush, poetic, and descriptive but there's no there behind it; it all just becomes too much, too overwrought, too florid. Although the reader is told again and again that is would be catastrophic for Red and Blue to be discovered, there is never any actual sense of danger until the odd and sinister climax that comes out of the blue (yeah, bad pun). The unusual delivery of the letters between the two women is creative but does nothing beyond highlighting their repeated cleverness. In the end, I didn't care which side won the war. I had no idea what they were fighting for or over or even who the two sides really were. I didn't care about Red and Blue or their love. In fact, I didn't even care whether love won and this, I think, sums up why I didn't enjoy the novella. The reader should care. But after 198 pages, I just couldn't. And that's a shame because I think there was a kernel of something there. Maybe in another timeline.
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And I have to say that I am sad to report that I agree with her assessment. Despite a promising premise, a lesbian Romeo and Juliet story set across time, a love story unbounded by our reality, This Is How You Lose the Time War just didn't deliver for me. (As it won this year's Hugo Award for a Novella, apparently those in the know disagree with me!)On a dying world, an operative from the Agency finds a letter from Garden's agent. Red and Blue work for different entities in this all out war. They are supposed to be sworn enemies. Over vast quantities of time and space, traveling through different realities, these two post-human women have come across each other again and again, each agent trying to foil her opposite. Red and Blue slip through time backwards and forwards to make large and small impacts that will win battles for their respective sides and ultimately win the war. They are each other's equal and after catching sight of one another once upon a time, Blue writes to Red, offering respect and gratitude for the deadly game they have been engaging in. As they weave through time, they exchange more and more letters, offering tiny bits of their reality to each other and ultimately falling deeply in love, despite fighting for opposing sides. If they are found out, they cannot possibly survive.
The details of the world Red and Blue live in, many stranded as it seems to be, are left hazy and indistinct. Red and Blue themselves are also indistinct, giving no real sense of their characters beyond their desperate yearning for each other. Plot is minimal. All of this gives the entire novella an otherworldly, dream-like feel that can be frustrating to read. The language is lush, poetic, and descriptive but there's no there behind it; it all just becomes too much, too overwrought, too florid. Although the reader is told again and again that is would be catastrophic for Red and Blue to be discovered, there is never any actual sense of danger until the odd and sinister climax that comes out of the blue (yeah, bad pun). The unusual delivery of the letters between the two women is creative but does nothing beyond highlighting their repeated cleverness. In the end, I didn't care which side won the war. I had no idea what they were fighting for or over or even who the two sides really were. I didn't care about Red and Blue or their love. In fact, I didn't even care whether love won and this, I think, sums up why I didn't enjoy the novella. The reader should care. But after 198 pages, I just couldn't. And that's a shame because I think there was a kernel of something there. Maybe in another timeline.
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LibraryThing member Herenya
The letters exchanged between Red and Blue, two agents on opposing sides of a time war, are vibrant and memorable, playful and poignant. I particularly enjoyed their different names for each other. (“Dearest Blue-da-ba-dee”, “My Dear Mood Indigo”, “Dearest 0000FF” -- that one made me
The scenes in between leave many questions unanswered about why and how this war is being fought. Those sorts of questions are hard to answer and would require so much extra detail, shifting the focus away from the heart of the story -- the letters themselves -- so maybe it is better to be poetically ambiguous and leave the reader to draw their own conclusions? But I couldn’t shake the uncomfortable feeling that if I actually understood what was going on, I wouldn’t like the characters.
Nevertheless the letters are brilliant, and I can deal with uncertainty for the space of a novella.
There’s a kind of time travel in letters, isn’t there? I imagine you laughing at my small joke; I imagine you groaning; I imagine you throwing my words away. Do I have you still? Do I address empty air and the flies that will eat this carcass? You could leave me for five years, you could return never—and I have to write the rest of this not knowing.
I prefer read-receipts, all things considered -- the instant handshake of slow telepathy through our wires. But this is a fascinating technology, in its limits.
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laugh, “Dear Red Sky at Morning”...) The scenes in between leave many questions unanswered about why and how this war is being fought. Those sorts of questions are hard to answer and would require so much extra detail, shifting the focus away from the heart of the story -- the letters themselves -- so maybe it is better to be poetically ambiguous and leave the reader to draw their own conclusions? But I couldn’t shake the uncomfortable feeling that if I actually understood what was going on, I wouldn’t like the characters.
Nevertheless the letters are brilliant, and I can deal with uncertainty for the space of a novella.
There’s a kind of time travel in letters, isn’t there? I imagine you laughing at my small joke; I imagine you groaning; I imagine you throwing my words away. Do I have you still? Do I address empty air and the flies that will eat this carcass? You could leave me for five years, you could return never—and I have to write the rest of this not knowing.
I prefer read-receipts, all things considered -- the instant handshake of slow telepathy through our wires. But this is a fascinating technology, in its limits.
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LibraryThing member jzacsh
Update: finished the book. More than one star because I liked the story. 2 stars because if I could go downthread and advise myself, I'd tell myself not to read this book.
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Just couldn't finish this book. The format - letters exchanged between the main characters, lacking easily pictured actions
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Just couldn't finish this book. The format - letters exchanged between the main characters, lacking easily pictured actions
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of any sort - felt so slow and not engaging enough for me to continue. Show Less
LibraryThing member Stevil2001
Perhaps someday they'll assign us side by side, in some village far upthread, deep cover, each watching each, and we can make tea together, trade books, report home sanitized accounts of each other's doings. I think I'd still write letters, even then.
This novella alternates between two agents, Blue
It's quick and its clever. I know I should have higher aspirations, but one of my main thoughts when reading this was that there were more clever time war ideas in 100 pages of this book than in the dozen-something Big Finish Doctor Who Time War box sets I have heard. Cool ideas about nipping and tucking reality. I liked the letters, too, both the weird methods of transmitting them, and their contents, which go from rivalry to friendly regard to something more. Some of the beats will be familiar (there are two different bootstrap paradoxes, I think), but they're put to good effect, and the writing is strong. The plot is a little predictable (it's obvious, I think, that they will be brought into direct conflict), but how it's done is always interesting, and the conclusion is neat.
This novella alternates between two agents, Blue
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and Red, in a reality-consuming time war between Garden and the Agency. Typically the structure is one will undertake a mission, during which they find a message from the other; the next chapter is that letter; that leads into a mission from the letter writer's perspective; and so on.It's quick and its clever. I know I should have higher aspirations, but one of my main thoughts when reading this was that there were more clever time war ideas in 100 pages of this book than in the dozen-something Big Finish Doctor Who Time War box sets I have heard. Cool ideas about nipping and tucking reality. I liked the letters, too, both the weird methods of transmitting them, and their contents, which go from rivalry to friendly regard to something more. Some of the beats will be familiar (there are two different bootstrap paradoxes, I think), but they're put to good effect, and the writing is strong. The plot is a little predictable (it's obvious, I think, that they will be brought into direct conflict), but how it's done is always interesting, and the conclusion is neat.
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LibraryThing member Strider66
Pros: interesting characters, quick paced, touching romance
Cons: limited worldbuilding
Red and Blue work for opposing sides of a war trying to make sure their particular futures come true. Their battles happen across the varieties of time and parallel universes. Their rivalry intensifies when Blue
This is a longer novella, easily read in an afternoon. Which is good as it gets pretty intense towards the end and I’m not sure I could have put it down those last 50 pages.
The two protagonists were written by different authors, giving them distinct voices. The book follows the pattern of showing a scene from Red’s point of view, followed by a letter and the actions of a mysterious stranger, then shifts to Blue’s point of view and a letter she received. I was impressed by how much the characters changed over the course of the story given the brevity of the text.
With novellas I often feel the story could be fleshed out more, but this felt like the perfect length. The shortness even added to the tension.
The science is very hand-wavy so don’t expect the usual time travel rules to apply. The addition of multiple universes made me wonder how they could track the changes meant to bring about their futures, but none of that is explored or explained at all. The story is focused entirely on the two characters.
It’s a great, unique story.
Cons: limited worldbuilding
Red and Blue work for opposing sides of a war trying to make sure their particular futures come true. Their battles happen across the varieties of time and parallel universes. Their rivalry intensifies when Blue
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leaves Red a letter, beginning a correspondence that changes them both. This is a longer novella, easily read in an afternoon. Which is good as it gets pretty intense towards the end and I’m not sure I could have put it down those last 50 pages.
The two protagonists were written by different authors, giving them distinct voices. The book follows the pattern of showing a scene from Red’s point of view, followed by a letter and the actions of a mysterious stranger, then shifts to Blue’s point of view and a letter she received. I was impressed by how much the characters changed over the course of the story given the brevity of the text.
With novellas I often feel the story could be fleshed out more, but this felt like the perfect length. The shortness even added to the tension.
The science is very hand-wavy so don’t expect the usual time travel rules to apply. The addition of multiple universes made me wonder how they could track the changes meant to bring about their futures, but none of that is explored or explained at all. The story is focused entirely on the two characters.
It’s a great, unique story.
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LibraryThing member mzonderm
Many time travel books are non-linear to some degree. But this book charts a whole new path when it comes to non-linearity. To be fair, the specifics of where are when are somewhat beside the point, but the places and times the characters go to have very few recognizable features, which leaves the
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reading without a hook on which to make sense of the narrative (if it can be called that). It's kind of like reading abstract art. Like abstract art, a very few things come into focus by the end if you stare at them long enough, but it requires way too much effort. If you like that kind of thing, carry on, but it's really not for me. And yes, I already know I'm a philistine when it comes to art. Show Less
LibraryThing member ablachly
Prose so deliciously lyrical that I just want to eat it.
LibraryThing member quondame
This book has something, but it's not for me. In all the time hopping there was no sense of connection to place or period of flavor of such. A epistolary love story whose means I found more intriguing than it's content.
LibraryThing member dukedom_enough
In this short epistolary novel, rival powers, the Agency and Garden, war over Time itself - not just a single malleable timeline, but entire braids of them. Small changes vastly reshape each thread of time. Agents Red and Blue are superlative servants of their respective organizations. Forbidden
The alternate histories, past and future, that the two visit and change are cleverly imagined, as are the numerous methods they use to transmit their notes. Their growing regard for each other convinces. The book is filled with poetic flights:
I have been birds and branches. I have been bees and wolves. I have been ether flooding the void between stars, tangling their breath into networks of song. I have been fish and plankton and humus, and all of these have been me.
But while I've been enmeshed in this wholeness - they are not the whole of me.
Each adversary is far more than the role assigned her in the war. Can they find a space for themselves?
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any fraternization, they begin exchanging communications that begin as taunts, then become explorations of each others' long lives and, eventually, love letters, letters that must be hidden from discovery by their near-omniscient home offices.The alternate histories, past and future, that the two visit and change are cleverly imagined, as are the numerous methods they use to transmit their notes. Their growing regard for each other convinces. The book is filled with poetic flights:
I have been birds and branches. I have been bees and wolves. I have been ether flooding the void between stars, tangling their breath into networks of song. I have been fish and plankton and humus, and all of these have been me.
But while I've been enmeshed in this wholeness - they are not the whole of me.
Each adversary is far more than the role assigned her in the war. Can they find a space for themselves?
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LibraryThing member passion4reading
This is a difficult book to review because I'm still not entirely sure how I feel about it. Although the idea is unique and the characters are fascinating, I still somehow struggled to become fully immersed in the story. I couldn't connect to or identify with either Red or Blue, and while the prose
The neat ending,with its wibbly wobbly, timey wimey character , makes up for some of it, but not enough that I would want to keep and reread it.
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is gorgeous, it also for large parts obscures rather than elucidates meaning. Maybe I noticed this the keener because I only recently finished And Now We Shall Be Entirely Free by Andrew Miller, where the prose frequently sparkles and explains a character, fact or situation so clearly with such few words that you wonder how it can ever be expressed any different. There were also a few too many fantastical elements that to me served only as distractions from the main thread. I felt there was no connection to place or time despite the frequent time-hopping, with the different locations and times being used merely as background for the developing romance, which is in my opinion essential in a time travel story.The neat ending,
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LibraryThing member lavaturtle
I love the multiple layers of story twisting around each other in this weird, emotional, awesome work. The ending is really great.
LibraryThing member LynnB
I actually liked this book, which surprised me because I'm not a sci-fi fan. But I am a fan of beautiful writing, which this book has. It is poetic and sparse but conveys a lot of information. I'm also a fan of strongly developed characters, which this book also has. As the novel unfolds, we see
This is, at it's core, a story about rivalries, loyalties and love. With a bit of time travel, alternative universes and war on the side.
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the protagonists, Red and Blue, develop and change. The book doesn't have a lot of details of the various worlds Blue and Red inhabit, or how they get from one to the other, but I wouldn't have found that important anyway.This is, at it's core, a story about rivalries, loyalties and love. With a bit of time travel, alternative universes and war on the side.
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LibraryThing member VioletBramble
Red and Blue are operatives on opposite sides of the Time War. They travel through time and space on threads sabotaging and un-doing each other's work. They are each the best operative on their side. Red works for The Agency, a giant machine. Blue works for The Garden, a vast consciousness embedded
This is a strange and lovely book. It takes a while to figure out what's happening but by the end all the pieces click into place. Recommended.
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in all organic matter. After years of this competitive game between them they become obsessed with each other. They start leaving each other messages through time and space in unique and untraceable ways. If they were to get caught they would be killed by their people as unreliable and a traitor. Red becomes aware that there is a shadow presence stalking them through their missions. They devise even more clever ways to communicate and the game turns into the strangest love story ever. This is a strange and lovely book. It takes a while to figure out what's happening but by the end all the pieces click into place. Recommended.
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LibraryThing member TheDivineOomba
This is a near perfect book for me - short, tells a full story, interesting characters that are manage to fully human while being something else. I love the letter writing - Blue is much more poetic, Red a bit more matter of fact. Just enough of the time war is given for readers to understand how
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it works, and the two societies are put together - Red's society being technical based, Blue's society being biological based. Both societies are ruthless and caring in their own ways. Show Less
LibraryThing member breic
A fairy tale romance with a magical science-fiction setting. The setting is more a collection of random sci-fi tropes thrown together poetically (for alliteration and vivid imagery) than anything coherent. The protagonists are not human, and since they don't know each other and rarely even see each
> Red wins a battle between starfleets in the far future of Strand 2218. As the great Gallumfry lists planetward, raining escape pods, as battle stations wilt like flowers tossed into flame, as radio bands crackle triumph and swiftskimmers swoop after fleeing voidtails, as guns speak their last arguments into mute space, she slips away. The triumph feels stale and swift. She used to love such fire. Now it only reminds her of who’s not there.
> Dear Raspberry, It's not that I never noticed before how many red things there are in the world. It's that they were never any more relevant to me than green or white or gold. Now it's as if the whole world sings to me in petals, feathers, pebbles, blood. Not that it didn't before—Garden loves music with a depth impossible to sound—but now its song's for me alone.
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other, to me their romance came across as more than a little creepy, like they are both stalkers. The letters between these thousand-year-old time magicians seem to have been written by love-struck teenagers; I found this quite bizarre. For all that, it is a fast read, and I can't remember reading a science-fiction fairy tale before. > Red wins a battle between starfleets in the far future of Strand 2218. As the great Gallumfry lists planetward, raining escape pods, as battle stations wilt like flowers tossed into flame, as radio bands crackle triumph and swiftskimmers swoop after fleeing voidtails, as guns speak their last arguments into mute space, she slips away. The triumph feels stale and swift. She used to love such fire. Now it only reminds her of who’s not there.
> Dear Raspberry, It's not that I never noticed before how many red things there are in the world. It's that they were never any more relevant to me than green or white or gold. Now it's as if the whole world sings to me in petals, feathers, pebbles, blood. Not that it didn't before—Garden loves music with a depth impossible to sound—but now its song's for me alone.
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LibraryThing member villemezbrown
I couldn't always follow the action and intrigue in this confusing little book, but the story at the heart really grabbed me. Two time travelers on opposing sides of a war being waged throughout all of history for control of the future find themselves engaged in a battle of wits that leads to them
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becoming, um, pen pals. One is from a society based in nature and biology, while the other is from one of technology and machines, but they have respect for each other's capabilities and are excited by the added dimension the correspondence gives to their forever seesawing game of cat and mouse. In a realm where paranoia is the rule of the day, what happens when the person trying to kill you seems more trustworthy than the person giving you orders? Show Less
LibraryThing member renbedell
A SF novella about two factions out war as two opposing agents travel through time and end up having a deep connection. This is ultimately a love story, but a well written one about espionage with a strong SF twist. It is a great book that allows the story to grow until a fantastic climax. This
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LibraryThing member fred_mouse
I love a good time travel book, and this is very much a good time travel book. Also suspense, romance, and a number of other things. Lush language, science so futuristic it is indeed magic, rich and detailed world building, a slow roll of fascinating little pieces, each with a richness of
This is a complex and evocative story, of two hereditary enemies working both against and with (under the noses of their respective bosses) each other. Also surreal.
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imagination and detail. This is a complex and evocative story, of two hereditary enemies working both against and with (under the noses of their respective bosses) each other. Also surreal.
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LibraryThing member bookworm12
What a wild ride! Two time travelers on opposite sides of a war keep crossing paths. Through different strands they write beautiful letters to each other. The worlds they describe are completely unique and despite the sci-fi elements, it’s pure poetry. Red and Blue dance around each other from a
“Books are letters in bottles, cast into the waves of time, from one person trying to save the world to another.”
“I have built a you within me, or you have. I wonder what of me there is in you.”
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distance while trying to hide their connection from their commanders. This is an adventure and love story worth diving into. “Books are letters in bottles, cast into the waves of time, from one person trying to save the world to another.”
“I have built a you within me, or you have. I wonder what of me there is in you.”
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Awards
Hugo Award (Nominee — Novella — 2020)
Nebula Award (Nominee — Novella — 2019)
Shirley Jackson Award (Nominee — Novella — 2019)
Locus Award (Finalist — Novella — 2020)
LA Times Book Prize (Finalist — 2019)
British Science Fiction Association Award (Shortlist — Short Fiction — 2019)
CBC Best Canadian Fiction (2019)
The Kitschies (Finalist — 2019)
Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (Finalist — 2020)
Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize (Longlist — Fiction — 2020)
Ignyte Award (Shortlist — Novella — 2020)
Prix Aurora Award (Winner — Short Fiction — 2020)
Booklist Editor's Choice: Adult Books (Genre Fiction — 2019)
NPR: Books We Love (2019)
Los Angeles Public Library Best of the Year (Fiction — 2019)
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
2019-07-16
Physical description
208 p.; 5.5 inches
ISBN
9781534431003