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This is How You Lose the Time War: The epic time-travelling love story and Twitter sensation de Amal El-Mohtar

This is How You Lose the Time War: The epic time-travelling love story and Twitter sensation

Autor Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
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en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 iul 2019

La prima vedere, This is How You Lose the Time War pare a fi un exercițiu de stil despre un conflict cosmic abstract, însă cititorul descoperă rapid o poveste de dragoste viscerală, care pulsează sub mecanismele reci ale science-fiction-ului teoretic. Remarcăm modul în care Amal El-Mohtar și Max Gladstone construiesc un sistem tehnologic și biologic fascinant: două facțiuni, una bazată pe tehnologie pură și cealaltă pe o evoluție organică, se luptă pentru supremația asupra viitorului prin modificarea subtilă a trecutului. Obiectele prin care cei doi agenți, Red și Blue, își transmit scrisorile — de la inele de copaci la molecule de ceai — transformă comunicarea într-o formă de artă tactilă. Atmosfera te trimite cu gândul la Sea of Tranquility de Emily St John Mandel, prin melancolia firelor temporale împletite, deși natura epistolară și densitatea metaforică de aici marchează o voce proprie, mult mai concentrată. Reținem ritmul alert, dictat de salturile prin epoci, dar și momentele de respiro poetic care umanizează războiul. Față de alte lucrări ale lui Amal El-Mohtar, precum Seasons of Glass and Iron: Stories, unde explorarea mitului era centrală, acest volum rafinează temele identității și sacrificiului într-un cadru speculativ mult mai ambițios. Este o demonstrație de forță narativă unde limbajul nu doar descrie lumea, ci o modelează activ, oferind o experiență de lectură senzorială și intelectuală deopotrivă.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781529405231
ISBN-10: 1529405238
Pagini: 198
Dimensiuni: 124 x 196 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Quercus Books
Colecția Arcadia
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care caută un science-fiction ce transcende clișeele genului, punând accent pe profunzimea emoțională și pe limbajul liric. Veți câștiga o perspectivă unică asupra conceptului de timp, văzut nu ca o linie dreaptă, ci ca un câmp de bătălie al ideilor. Este lectura ideală pentru fanii prozei scurte de mare impact care apreciază un sistem magic-tehnologic inventiv și o poveste de dragoste atipică.

Despre autor

Amal El-Mohtar este o voce distinctă în literatura speculativă contemporană, fiind multiplă laureată a premiilor Hugo, Nebula și Locus. Originară din Canada, ea combină în scrierile sale precizia poetică — fiind și o reputată autoare de versuri, distinsă cu premiul Rhysling — cu o imaginație debordantă. Lucrările sale, precum The River Has Roots sau antologia The Mythic Dream, explorează adesea granițele dintre folclor, mit și realitate. În colaborarea cu Max Gladstone pentru acest volum, ea aduce o sensibilitate estetică ce transformă genul science-fiction într-un spațiu al explorării interioare profunde.

Descriere

'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

Recenzii

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
Exquisitely crafted . . . Part epistolary romance, part mind-blowing science fiction adventure, this dazzling story unfolds bit by bit . . . Full of fanciful ideas and poignant moments, weaving a tapestry stretching across the millennia and through multiple realities that's anchored with raw emotion and a genuine sense of wonder. This short novel warrants multiple readings to fully unlock its complexities
Spectacular . . . Poetry, disguised as genre fiction. I read several sections out loud - this is prose that wants to be more than read. It wants to be heard and tasted
If Iain M. Banks and Gerard Manley Hopkins had ever been able to collaborate on a science fiction project, well, it wouldn't be half as much fun as this novella by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. There is all the pleasure of a long series, and all the details of an much larger world, presented in miniature here
Fast-paced and intricately plotted
A time travel adventure that has as much humanity, grace, and love as it has temporal shenanigans, rewriting history, and temporal agents fighting to the death. Two days from now, you've already devoured it
Sweet, hopeful, and unashamedly beautiful
A gorgeous love story playfully yet powerfully spanning time and space in a weave of imagery and delight
This is the time-travelling queer epistolary romance I didn't know I needed . . . With precise, cut-glass prose - poetic and pragmatic at once - deeply compelling characters, and a tensely rewarding conclusion, This Is How You Lose the Time War is one of the most striking works of fiction I've read this decade. I'm going to be thinking about it - returning to it - for months, at least. Read it, because I can't recommend it highly enough
A wonderful tapestry of detail
I'm very rarely a reader of romances - but I think now that's only because there is so rarely a romance like How To Lose the Time War. I've lost the day to it, and my only regret is that it's over . . . It's a smart, inventive, lyrical story that dances a pas de deux down the edge of a razor, and I'm very glad to have read it
Intimately operates within an immersive space opera
The intergalactic and historic sweep . . . services rather than overwhelms what is in essence a story about falling in love under a repressive dictatorship
Soars and succeeds in its vivid detail, and in its vast imaginative sweep . . . Vivid, savage, tender, cruel, it is worthy of many readings
An epistolary masterpiece, a masterclass in allusion, a deep dive into character, a perfect manipulation of form and syntax and tone, a bending of the genre to create something that is intrinsically science-fiction and yet absolutely, gorgeously unique . . . This book stunned me
Lush, glorious, passionate . . . I don't know how I'm going to move on past this book - but do I need to? I feel profoundly changed, cracked open and weeping, my heart in my hand, a songbird in my chest
A message that the world needs to hear
If you took that sappy story of unrequited love, Keanu Reeves and a time-traveling mailbox, strapped it up in body armor, covered it with razors, dipped it in poison and set it loose to murder and burn its way across worlds and centuries, what you'd end up with is This Is How You Lose The Time War, the experimental, collaborative, time-travelling love-and-genocide novel by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Compulsively readable . . . this book was one of my most anticipated reads this year since I found out about it, and it really did not disappoint one bit
Strange and lovely . . . unique
A story told through lyrical writing you very rarely see in fantasy these days . . . A genuine tour de force from a pair of writers at the top of their games
Well deserves every second you dedicate to it
The worldbuilding is superb . . . This Is How You Lose the Time War wonderfully delivers on its premise
Beautifully conceived and written in shifting tones with clockwork precision underpinning its Möbius convolutions, one of the most fascinating books of the year so far
A short, but punchy book that was highly emotional. I loved it a lot. The whole idea behind it is brilliantly ironic. I loved the writing, and I wished it was longer
Breathtaking. Brilliant in a way I'm not sure a review can illustrate. It has to be read to be believed
Exquisitely pitched . . . I don't remember the last time I cried rereading a book, but this one manages it
It's more than good. It's astonishing. You should read it.
Two hundred and one pages of can't-put-down goodness
We might call it an "epistolary time-travel spy love story", but that doesn't really convey the book's poetic quality - it's one of a kind
An intellectually rewarding read with prose of a high standard. And it's a must-read for time travel tragics like moi

Poetic and lovely

A brilliant reading experience. For something different and beautiful this is exactly the kind of story you've been waiting for
An epistolary novel about two time travellers battling one another for control of the future who fall in love