This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone was the 131st official Sword and Laser Book Club selection.
Reading period: Apr 1, 2020 - Apr 30, 2020
How/Why was this book chosen: It won a March Madness style knockout poll.
| Round 1 | Sword Match 1 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
|
137 votes |
41.9% |
The Neverending Story |
Michael Ende |
| 190 votes | 58.1% |
The Bear and the Nightingale |
Katherine Arden |
|
327 |
Total | ||
| Sword Match 2 | |||
|
82 votes |
25.7% |
The Land: Founding |
Aleron Kong |
|
237 votes |
74.3% |
Rivers of London/Midnight Riot |
Ben Aaronovitch |
|
319 |
Total | ||
| Sword Match 3 | |||
| 256 votes |
82.3% |
The City of Brass |
S.A.Chakraborty |
| 55 votes | 17.7% | The Bloodprint |
Alix E. Harrow |
|
311 |
Total | ||
| Sword Match 4 | |||
| 129 votes | 41.3% | The Rage of Dragons |
Evan Winter |
| 183 votes | 58.7% | The Ten Thousand Doors of January |
Asuma Zehanat Khan |
| 312 | Total | ||
| Laser Match 1 | |||
| 112 votes | 35.7% |
Lagoon |
Nnedi Okorafor |
| 202 votes | 64.3% | A Memory Called Empire |
Arkady Martine |
| 314 | |||
| Laser Match 2 | |||
|
102 votes |
31.8% |
Callahan's Crosstime Saloon |
Spider Robinson |
| 219 votes |
68.2% |
Children of Time |
Adrian Tchaikovsky |
| 321 | Total | ||
| Laser Match 3 | |||
| 106 votes | 34.4% |
The Future of Another Timeline |
Analee Newitz |
| 202 votes | 65.6% |
This is How You Lose the Time War |
Amal El-Mohtar Max Gladstone |
| 308 | Total | ||
| Laser Match 4 | |||
| 245 votes | 76.1% |
All Systems Red |
Martha Wells |
| 77 votes | 23.9% |
The Female Man |
Joanna Russ |
| 322 | Total |
| Round 2 | Sword Match 1 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
|
128 votes |
43.8% |
The Bear and the Nightingale |
Katherine Arden |
| 164 votes | 56.2% | Rivers of London/Midnight Riot |
Ben Aaronovitch |
| 292 | Total | ||
| Sword Match 2 | |||
| 160 votes | 55.4% | The City of Brass |
S.A.Chakraborty |
|
129 votes |
44.6% | The Ten Thousand Doors of January |
Asuma Zehanat Khan |
| 289 | Total | ||
| Laser Match 1 | |||
|
130 votes |
45.5% | A Memory Called Empire |
Arkady Martine |
| 156 votes | 54.5% |
Children of Time |
Adrian Tchaikovsky |
| 286 | Total | ||
| Laser Match 2 | |||
|
152 votes |
50.5% |
This is How You Lose the Time War |
Amal El-Mohtar Max Gladstone |
| 149 votes | 49.5% |
All Systems Red |
Martha Wells |
| 301 | Total |
| Sword Semi-Final | |||
|---|---|---|---|
|
143 votes |
45.1% | Rivers of London/Midnight Riot |
Ben Aaronovitch |
|
174 votes |
54.9% | The City of Brass |
S.A.Chakraborty |
| 317 | Total | ||
| Laser Semi-Final | |||
| 134 votes | 42.9% |
Children of Time |
Adrian Tchaikovsky |
| 178 votes | 57.1% |
This is How You Lose the Time War |
Amal El-Mohtar Max Gladstone |
| 312 | Total |
| Final | |||
|---|---|---|---|
|
128 votes |
44.3% | The City of Brass |
S.A.Chakraborty |
|
161 votes |
55.7% |
This is How You Lose the Time War |
Amal El-Mohtar Max Gladstone |
| 289 | Total |
Sword and Laser Group Discussion of This is How You Lose the Time War
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone[]
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 and Max Gladstone.
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?
Cowritten by two beloved and award-winning sci-fi writers, This Is How You Lose the Time War is an epic love story spanning time and space.
