This Is How You Lose the Time War

<b>HUGO AWARD WINNER: BEST NOVELLA</b><br> <br><b>NEBULA AND LOCUS AWARDS WINNER: BEST NOVELLA</b><br> <br><b>ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019</b><br> <br><b>Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in this thrilling and romantic book from award-winning authors Amal El-Mohtar</b> <b>and Max Gladstone.</b><br><br>In the ashes of a dying world, Red finds a letter marked “Burn before reading. Signed, Blue.”<br> <br>So begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents in a war that stretches through the vast reaches of time and space.<br> <br>Red belongs to the Agency, a post-singularity technotopia. Blue belongs to Garden, a single vast consciousness embedded in all organic matter. Their pasts are bloody and their futures mutually exclusive. They have nothing in common—save that they’re the best, and they’re alone.<br> <br>Now what began as a battlefield boast grows into a dangerous game, one both Red and Blue are determined to win. Because winning’s what you do in war. Isn’t it?<br> <br>A tour de force collaboration from two powerhouse writers that spans the whole of time and space.