This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
In This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, letters serve a variety of purposes. taunting among rivals. requests for friendship. letters of love.
At different times, they are also bubbles, magma, and tree rings.
This epistolary novella opens with a competition between two time travellers who are the top representatives of rival groups determined to mould the multiverse to meet their individual ideas. Red is employed by the Agency, a highly developed human species that has implanted her with armour, weaponry, and pseudo-skin that can change forms as needed. Blue works for Garden, an organic hivemind whose members have created organic counterparts to these nefarious and deceitful devices.
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
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Red discovers a note marked “Burn before reading” in the ruins of a dying world. signed in blue
So starts an unexpected correspondence between two antagonistic agents engaged in a conflict that spans a tremendous amount of time and space.
Red is a member of the post-singularity technopolis known as the Agency. Garden, a solitary, universal awareness embedded in all organic things, is the owner of Blue. Their histories are violent, and their futures are incompatible. Except for the fact that they are the best and the only ones, they have nothing in common.
Now, what started as a combat boast develops into a risky game that both Red and Blue are adamant about winning. Because in war, you always try to win. Is it not?
A brilliant collaboration between two powerful writers that encompasses the entire.
Their struggle feels practically never-ending. Both are essentially immortal and are capable of playing the longest games in successive “strands.”
