WINNER OF The Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novella, the Reddit Stabby Award for Best Novella AND The British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novella SHORTLISTED FOR 2020 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award The Ray Bradbury Prize Kitschies Red Tentacle Award Kitschies Inky Tentacle Brave New Words Award 'A fireworks display from two very talented storytellers' Madeline Miller, author of Circe. Co-written by two award-winning writers, This Is How You Lose the Time War 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: 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? 'An intimate and lyrical tour of time, myth and history' John Scalzi, bestselling author of Old Man's War 'Lyrical and vivid and bittersweet' Ann Leckie, Hugo Award-winning author of Ancillary Justice 'Rich and strange, a romantic tour through all of time and the multiverse' Martha Wells, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of The Murderbot Diaries
CONTRIBUTORS: Amal El-MohtarEAN: 9781529405231COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 159 gHEIGHT: 196 cm
Relating to LGBTQ+ people, Fiction: general and literary, Science fiction: time travel
This book has it all: treachery and love, lyricism and gritty action, existential crisis and space-opera scope, not to mention time travelling superagents. Gladstone's and El-Mohtar's debut collaboration is a fireworks display from two very talented storytellers, An intimate and lyrical tour of time, myth and history, with a captivating conversation between characters - and authors. Read it, Lyrical and vivid and bittersweet. An absolutely lovely read from two talented writers, This is How You Lose the Time War is rich and strange, a romantic tour through all of time and the multiverse, and you shouldn't miss a moment, An intense, poetic work
Amal El-Mohtar (Author) Amal El-Mohtar is an author, editor and critic. Her short story 'Seasons of Glass and Iron' won the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards and was a finalist for the World Fantasy, Sturgeon, Aurora, and Eugie Foster awards. She is the author of The Honey Month, a collection of poetry and prose written to the taste of twenty-eight different kinds of honey, and contributes criticism to NPR Books and The New York Times. Her fiction has most recently appeared on Tor.com and Uncanny Magazine, and in anthologies such as The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories and The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales. She is currently pursuing a PhD at Carleton University and teaches Creative Writing at the University of Ottawa.Max Gladstone (Author) Max Gladstone is the author of the Hugo-nominated Craft Sequence, which Patrick Rothfuss called 'stupefyingly good'. The sixth book, Ruin of Angels, was published in the US last year. His critically acclaimed short fiction has appeared on Tor.com and in Uncanny Magazine, and in anthologies such as XO Orpheus: Fifthy New Myths and The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales. John Crowley described Max as 'a true star of twenty-first-century fantasy'. Max has also sung at Carnegie Hall.
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WINNER OF The Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novella, the Reddit Stabby Award for Best Novella AND The British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novella SHORTLISTED FOR 2020 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award The Ray Bradbury Prize Kitschies Red Tentacle Award Kitschies Inky Tentacle Brave New Words Award 'A fireworks display from two very talented storytellers' Madeline Miller, author of Circe. Co-written by two award-winning writers, This Is How You Lose the Time War 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: 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? 'An intimate and lyrical tour of time, myth and history' John Scalzi, bestselling author of Old Man's War 'Lyrical and vivid and bittersweet' Ann Leckie, Hugo Award-winning author of Ancillary Justice 'Rich and strange, a romantic tour through all of time and the multiverse' Martha Wells, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of The Murderbot Diaries
CONTRIBUTORS: Amal El-MohtarEAN: 9781529405231COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 159 gHEIGHT: 196 cm
Amal El-Mohtar (Author) Amal El-Mohtar is an author, editor and critic. Her short story 'Seasons of Glass and Iron' won the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards and was a finalist for the World Fantasy, Sturgeon, Aurora, and Eugie Foster awards. She is the author of The Honey Month, a collection of poetry and prose written to the taste of twenty-eight different kinds of honey, and contributes criticism to NPR Books and The New York Times. Her fiction has most recently appeared on Tor.com and Uncanny Magazine, and in anthologies such as The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories and The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales. She is currently pursuing a PhD at Carleton University and teaches Creative Writing at the University of Ottawa.Max Gladstone (Author) Max Gladstone is the author of the Hugo-nominated Craft Sequence, which Patrick Rothfuss called 'stupefyingly good'. The sixth book, Ruin of Angels, was published in the US last year. His critically acclaimed short fiction has appeared on Tor.com and in Uncanny Magazine, and in anthologies such as XO Orpheus: Fifthy New Myths and The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales. John Crowley described Max as 'a true star of twenty-first-century fantasy'. Max has also sung at Carnegie Hall.
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A fantastic book. The moment I started reading I was pulled into a gripping storyline that constantly had me on the edge of my seat. I couldn’t put it down even for a moment.
As daar nou al ooit ’n onwaarskynlike liefde geskets is in ’n romanse, is dit die verhouding tussen Danika en Dewald. Dit kon skaars slegter begin, met sy ondeurdagte opmerking by die begrafnis van Danika se man. Maar dit is sy grysblou oë, en nie net die beskuldiging wat hy uitgespreek het nie, wat haar ry.
Die storielyn fokus sterk op skuld, aanspreeklikheid en die invloed van ander se oordeel oor situasies. Mens kan kers opsteek by Dewald, met sy nugtere uitkyk. Dit was egter juis sy geneigdheid om jammer te kry en te vergoed vir onreg, wat ’n tydelike wig tussen hulle ingedryf het.
Ek het nog nooit die voorreg van ’n ski-vakansie gehad nie, daarom het ek dit baie geniet saam met Danika en haar familie. Net genoeg inligting om die storielyn te ondersteun en Danika se vertwyfeling finaal stop te sit.
Ek het vinnig weer gekyk na hierdie skrywer se vorige twee Romanzas, Om die sterre te raak, en Waag en wen, en ek voel daar is ’n duidelike groei in haar skryfstyl. Onvoorwaardelike liefde verdien ’n ekstra ster van my kant af.
Die Romanza in die Moderne subgenre, is uitgegee deur Lapa Uitgewers.
In onlangse Romanzas was daar ’n paar boere waaroor lesers en heldinne geswymel het. Malene Breytenbach skryf toe ook ’n boer in haar nuwe Romanza in, maar met die verskil dat hierdie boer die skurk is. ’n Angswekkende en afstootlike teisteraar wat vir Kira Louw noop om ’n pos as verpleegster op ’n luukste passasierskip te aanvaar in ’n poging om van hom ontslae te raak.
Dit bring dan ook die ware held in die prentjie, die aantreklike skeepsdokter, Albert Dorell. Struikelblokke is ’n gegewe in die romanse genre, maar die skrywer vermy een wat alte dikwels opduik, naamlik ’n held wat vooraf besluit het, om welke rede ookal, dat hy nie gaan trou nie. Sy kom met ’n vars invalshoek, naamlik die vereiste dat ’n vrou vir Albert moet kan aanpas by ’n gegoede en tradisievaste familie op Malta. Anders as sy pa en sy voormalige Suid-Afrikaanse vrou, wie se huwelik nie die toets deurstaan het nie.
Die feit dat aantreklike mans en vrouens gewoonlik té veel aandag kry van die teenoorgestelde geslag, maak ook telkens deel uit van die storielyn van Seenimf en die skeepsdokter. Die skip en die bedrywighede dien as agtergrond, maar oorheers nie die storielyn nie. ’n Oulike ekstra is die pittige karakter, Lee-Anne in wie Kira ’n bondgenoot vind. “Jy’t nie vir my koebaai gesê nie, toe’s ek nogal aangevat in my binneste, jy weet.” (p.106) Ek het vir Lee-Anne baie geniet, so ook die storie as geheel. Daar was oorgenoeg onverwagte wendings om die aandag te behou, alvorens die uiteindelike gelukkige einde aanmeld.
Haar voorneme om nie weer betrokke te raak nie, swig voor 'n aantreklike boer
’n Jaar nadat haar verlowing misluk het, koop Marguerite van Wyk Die Blou Turksvy, ’n besige winkel op haar grootworddorp, Viljoensvlei. Sy het groot planne om dit uit te brei en vaste voornemens om “eerder kaalvoet oor die naaste berg (te loop) as om ooit weer die gedagte te kry om haar aan ’n man te verbind.” (p. 11)
Op Engels is daar ’n uitdrukking wat lui: famous last words. Dit is wat mens spoedig van haar voorneme kan sê wanneer Bernard Visagie op die toneel verskyn. Die aantrekkingskrag tussen dié twee gee ook aanleiding tot ’n interessante dimensie in die storielyn, want dit word duidelik dat daar ’n vete van meer as dertig jaar bestaan tussen die Van Wyks en die Visagies. Die skrywer hou mens aan die wonder daaroor, terwyl Bernard en Marguerite hulle eie stryd het met hulle gevoelens vir mekaar.
Die oulike titel kom by monde van die einste boer, Bernard: “Miskien gee iemand jou eendag ’n rede om te bly.” (p.117) Die held kry volpunte by my, ’n man uit een stuk, standvastig en met goeie maniere. Die romanse is uitgegee in die sub-genre, Plaas, en het goed daarin geslaag om my aandag te behou. Ek het juis deesdae so ’n swakte vir boere en boere se vrouens!