Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone - This Is How You Lose the Time War

There's a bit of fizz to this novella-length fiction, constructed by its two authors in a series of short episodes and inventively dispatched letters between the two time travelling protagonists, Red and Blue, agents of opposing sides in an endless war through time and multiverse who develop a romance. It's a tricky conceit to pull off, though, and it veers a bit naff at times, and its somewhat thin science fiction premise would have benefited from more depth and concrete detail given the amount of action that it's asked to bear.