This is How You Lose the Time War

WINNER OF

Hugo Award for Best Novella

Nebula Award for Best Novella

Reddit Stabby Award for Best Novella

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

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?

'A fireworks display from two very talented storytellers' Madeline Miller, author of Circe

'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