This is How You Lose the Time War

About “This is How You Lose the Time War”

This 2019 novella by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone follows two time-traveling agents from warring futures who begin exchanging letters and fall in love. Red belongs to the Agency, a post-singularity technotopia; Blue belongs to Garden, a vast consciousness embedded in organic matter. Their correspondence, begun as a battlefield boast, grows into a dangerous game each is determined to win.