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This Is How You Lose The Time War
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A 2019 novella by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone.The novel is about two agents on rival sides of a time war, Red and Blue, who are both working to ensure that their respective futures — the highly technological Agency and the biological Garden — come to pass. Despite their opposing organizations, Red and Blue begin exchanging letters across time and space, and develop affection for each other that threatens not only them, but the entire time war. | |
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Time-Travel Romance | |
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Time-Travel Romance: Red and Blue fall in love up and down thousands of timelines. | |
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Alternate Timeline | |
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Alternate Timeline: There are thousands of them, called strands. A strand's past is called upthread, its future is downthread. Far downthread, all strands merge into one of two possible futures (also called Shifts), the Agency and the Garden. To ensure they come to pass, both Shifts send time travelers like Red and Blue to alter the course of each strand, working to "braid" them together so that they merge into their respective futures while unbraiding the attempts of other time travelers to do the same for the enemy. | |
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Future Self Reveal | |
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Future Self Reveal: The Seeker that shows up at the end of most chapters is actually Red from the future. | |
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Couldn't Find a Pen | |
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Couldn't Find a Pen: Being time travelers with very high levels of technology, Red and Blue use some interesting methods to write and deliver their letters, ranging from marbling in the fat of a seal to the bubbles in a boiling test tube. | |
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Rogue Agent | |
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Rogue Agent: The final letter reveals that Red and Blue have both gone rogue, and are now planning on remaking the timelines around each other to finally end the conflict. | |
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Pen Pals | |
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Pen Pals: What Red and Blue end up becoming. Initially their exchange of letters begins as a way to taunt each other over foiling each other's plans, but they grow more personal as they tell each other more about themselves and begin finding common ground. | |
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Butterfly of Doom | |
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Butterfly of Doom: While they're not adverse to creating minor or major disasters, both Red and Blue prefer to change very small things to bend the timelines, like making sure someone is late or one person has a religious motivation. | |
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Boring, but Practical | |
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Boring, but Practical: Red thwarts Blue's plans of finding a specific doctor at a hospital by making the doctor's car engine fail, which makes her decide to work from home and see her nieces instead. Red also keeps the hospital from being full by making a bomb threat. | |
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Epistolary Novel | |
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Epistolary Novel: The majority of the novella (with a few exceptions) is Red and Blue's letters to each other. | |
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Bio Punk | |
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Biopunk: Blue's Garden is highly advanced Organic Technology with a corresponding degree of invasiveness. | |
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Friendly Enemy | |
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Friendly Enemy: Red and Blue always respected each other, but as they exchange letters they become genuine friends, and then something more. | |
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For Want of a Nail | |
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For Want Of A Nail: Red and Blue are agents on opposite sides of a time war trying to alter every timeline to ensure the respective futures they hail from come about. They are capable of wiping out armies on their own, but subtle changes are more common. Red's first letter to Blue describes her carefully micromanaging events so that a single doctor in the 21st century works from home one day, thus causing two timelines to merge into one that will eventually lead to the formation of the Agency. | |
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Dating Catwoman | |
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Dating Catwoman: They are on rival sides of the war, after all. | |
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Time Police | |
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Time Police: Two rival groups of them, Red's Agency (a technological utopia) and Blue's Garden (a biopunk one), constantly fighting each other over the various timelines to try and cut each other out of the universe. | |
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Suicide Mission | |
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Suicide Mission: Red knows that her mission to save Blue will likely end in her death but she doesn't care. | |
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Color Motif | |
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Color Motif: Red and Blue, obviously, named for the colors they prefer. Their true names are revealed to each other, but not the reader. | |
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Mirror Match | |
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Mirror Match: Red actually fights her future self, the Seeker, at one point, with it technically ending in a draw (although obviously the Seeker runs away before Red realized who she was fighting). | |
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Break His Heart to Save Him | |
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Break His Heart to Save Him: Red and Blue try this in the end, with Red rejecting Blue so that she won't open her next letter, which will be deadly to her. Blue opens it anyway to save Red, and Red is forced to seek other measures. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Some of the nicknames Red and Blue use for each other reference songs and poems, such as Blue Da-Ba-Dee, or My Apple Tree, my Brightness. One letter, written while Red is harvesting lumber for Genghis Khan's armies, begins "How many boards would the Mongols hoard if the Mongol hordes got bored?", a line from a Calvin and Hobbes comic. | |
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Nature vs. Technology | |
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Nature vs. Technology: In this world, there are only two possible futures: one is the Garden, a biological society filled with Organic Technology that prefers to move at nature's pace; the other is the Agency, an aloof, technological society that prefers mechanical efficiency. These two groups are locked in a Time War and send out agents that try and ensure their futures come to pass. | |
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Animal Motifs | |
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Animal Motifs: Birds play an important role to both protagonists. | |
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Star-Crossed Lovers | |
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Star-Crossed Lovers: Despite being on opposite sides of the time war, agents Red and Blue fall in love with each other. They are explicitly compared to Romeo and Juliet in the text. | |
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Expendable Alternate Universe | |
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Expendable Alternate Universe: Red and Blue have both retconned and re-retconned so many different timelines that they think nothing about killing people within them to serve a greater goal, since most of the time their involvement will just be erased anyway. | |
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