This Is How You Lose the Time War
By Amal El-Mohtar

WINNER OFHugo Awardand for Best NovellaNebula Award for Best NovellaReddit Stabby Award for Best NovellaBritish Science Fiction Association Award for Best NovellaSHORTLISTED FOR2020 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial AwardThe Ray Bradbury PrizeKitschies Red Tentacle AwardKitschies Inky TentacleBrave New Words AwardCo-written by two award-winning writers,and This Is How You Lose the Time Warand is an epic love story spanning time and space.Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads:and 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?'A fireworks display from two very talented storytellers'and Madeline Miller, author ofand Circe'An intimate and lyricaland tour of time, myth and history'and John Scalzi, bestselling author ofand Old Man's War'Lyrical and vivid and bittersweet'and Ann Leckie, Hugo Award-winning author ofand Ancillary Justice'Rich and strange, a romantic tour through all of time and the multiverse'and Martha Wells, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of The Murderbot Diaries