This Is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar
13 people recommended it in 8 threads, 2019–2025.
What people on Hacker News said
The next day as I read, I was pacing around my apartment, alone, gesticulating, with a VERY SPECIFIC flavor of happy that, gosh, I hadn't felt since well before she left me so... 4 years? Longer? A flavor of happy I had almost forgotten existed.
This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (actually now one of my all-time favorites, without regard to genre. Just amazing)
It's far from being Hard SF if you like that (I do) but the humour and poetry of it won me over very fast.
This is how you lose the time war -- took me a long time to start this book, and then I couldn't put it down.
This is how you lose the time war is unlike any other book I've read! I thought it was super disorienting – and I loved that.
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