June Geek Book Club (In Person) - This is How You Lose the Time War, Amal & Max

Join us In Person at Park Road Books at 7 pm on June 9th to discuss This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladestone.

You can always pick up the book at Park Road Books for 20% off this month, but we welcome all versions both paper and digital.

The Author(s):
Amal El-Mohtar (born 13 December 1984[1]) is a Canadian poet and writer of speculative fiction,[2] best known for the 2019 novella This Is How You Lose the Time War. She is the editor of Goblin Fruit and reviews science fiction and fantasy books for the New York Times Book Review.

Max Gladstone is the author of the Craft Sequence: THREE PARTS DEAD, TWO SERPENTS RISE, FULL FATHOM FIVE, and most recently, LAST FIRST SNOW. He's been twice nominated for the John W Campbell Best New Writer award, and nominated for the XYZZY and Lambda Awards.
Max has taught in southern Anhui, wrecked a bicycle in Angkor Wat, and been thrown from a horse in Mongolia. Max graduated from Yale University, where he studied Chinese.

The Book:
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.