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“[An] exquisitely crafted tale...Part epistolary romance, part mind-blowing science fiction adventure, this dazzling story unfolds bit by bit, revealing layers of meaning as it plays with cause and effect, wildly imaginative technologies, and increasingly intricate wordplay...This short novel warrants multiple readings to fully unlock its complexities.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

From award-winning authors Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone comes an enthralling, romantic novel spanning time and space about two time-traveling rivals who fall in love and must change the past to ensure their future.

Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandment 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, becomes something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future. Except the discovery of their bond would mean the death of each of them.

There’s still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win. 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.

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chronicallybookish\ \ Kaley\ \ • Aug 11 2025

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Some books I’ve read in the last couple years that I rated 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 stars!

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chronicallybookish\ \ Kaley\ \ • May 19 2025

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Alex (Pucksandpaperbacks)\ \ Alex (he/him/his)\ \ • Jul 29

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Celestial\ \ Steph\ \ • Jun 20

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\ \ Pride Month is the perfect time to highlight these incredible books featuring LGBTQ+ characters and authors, but they're worth reading all year long. 🌈📚\ \ This stack includes:\ \ ✨ Awakening of the Starborne by Louve-Ch\ \ ✨ The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune\ \ ✨ In Her Spotlight by Amy Spalding\ \ ✨ The Crack at the Heart of Everything by Fiona Fenn\ \ ✨ This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone\ \ ✨ International Relations by Zac Hammett\ \ ✨ The Unmagical Life of Briar Jones by Lex Croucher\ \ ✨ Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Mikuta\ \ ✨ Aunt Tigress by Emily Yu-Xuan Qin\ \ ✨ Hollow by M.L. Burns\ \ This stack includes everything from cozy fantasy and romantasy to sci-fi, contemporary romance, and dark fantasy, all featuring LGBTQ+ representation, queer authors, or both.\ \ And if you're curious, the four I rave about the most from this stack are The House in the Cerulean Sea, This Is How You Lose the Time War, Hollow, and Awakening of the Starborne.\ \

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Celestial\ \ Steph\ \ • Jun 3

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sapphic science fiction: multiverse and time travel chaos edition!📚

sapphic science fiction: multiverse and time travel chaos edition!

📚 books mentioned: - This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone - The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson - The Paradox Hotel by Rob Hart

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Celestial\ \ Steph\ \ • Mar 27

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💭 does time travel lure you in or freak you out?

💭 does time travel lure you in or freak you out?

let’s talk about book recs with ~ 🕰️⏳ timey wimey 🕰️⌛️~ madness.

📚 books mentioned: - Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker - Kindred by Octavia E. Butler - This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

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thank you to Hanover Square Press / HTP Hive and Saga Press for the gifted copies!

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Sapphic Speculative Fiction Expands the Imagination\ \ Many people approach queer romance through familiar frameworks. Modern settings. Recognizable social rules. Families that resemble the structures most of us grew up around. I wrote about this a week or two ago, about looking beyond contemporary romance for great sapphic stories.\ \ Those stories matter. They reflect lived experience and present-day struggles.\ \ Yet some of the most thought-provoking sapphic stories appear in places where the rules look completely different.\ \ Speculative fiction offers writers a simple but radical tool. The ability to ask what happens when the world operates under different assumptions?\ \ What happens when gender does not function the way our societies expect?\ \ What happens when colonial hierarchies collapse or never existed in the first place?\ \ What happens when family and community follow different structures?\ \ Sapphic speculative fiction thrives in these questions.\ \ What counts as speculative fiction?\ \ Speculative fiction serves as an umbrella term for stories that imagine worlds different from our own.\ \ Fantasy explores magic, mythology, and alternate societies.\ \ Science fiction looks at future technology, space exploration, and evolving social systems.\ \ Alternate history reimagines historical timelines.\ \ Dystopian and utopian fiction examine political systems taken to extreme outcomes.\ \ Magical realism blends ordinary life with elements that challenge reality.\ \ All of these genres share a common feature. They build worlds where the assumptions we treat as natural begin to shift.\ \ When those foundations move, storytelling changes.\ \ Reimagining gender systems\ \ Many speculative worlds question the rigid gender frameworks common in contemporary culture.\ \ Some settings include fluid understandings of gender. Others remove the strict gender hierarchy. Some societies organize identity through entirely different categories.\ \ When gender works differently, relationships evolve as well.\ \ Characters express attraction without the scripts that dominate many romance narratives. Partnerships develop around compatibility, trust, or shared goals rather than predetermined roles.\ \ For readers, this shift opens new ways of thinking about identity and connection.\ \ Challenging colonial power structures\ \ Speculative fiction often explores empire, conquest, and resistance.\ \ Many worlds center characters fighting against oppressive systems or rebuilding communities after political collapse. Some stories draw inspiration from Indigenous traditions or non-Western perspectives to imagine societies structured around different values.\ \ Within these settings, sapphic characters frequently appear as leaders, rebels, scholars, or explorers. Their relationships unfold inside larger struggles over power, survival, and cultural memory.\ \ Love does not exist in isolation. It grows alongside questions about justice, resistance, and the future of entire communities.\ \ Rethinking family and community\ \ Another striking feature of speculative fiction involves how stories approach family.\ \ The nuclear family model rarely stands as the only option. Characters often live within chosen families, cooperative communities, traveling crews, or political alliances.\ \ Romantic relationships exist inside these broader networks of care.\ \ Two people falling in love may also share responsibilities to their crew, their village, or their resistance movement. Partnership becomes part of a wider web of loyalty and support.\ \ For many readers, this structure feels both imaginative and deeply familiar.\ \ Common tropes in sapphic speculative fiction\ \ Speculative fiction combines romance with adventure and conflict. Certain narrative patterns recur.\ \ A princess guarded by a loyal warrior or knight who begins to question her duty.\ \ Rival soldiers from opposing factions are forced to work together.\ \ A scholar and a fighter navigating a dangerous quest.\ \ Political enemies are forming uneasy alliances during a rebellion.\ \ Explorers encounter unfamiliar worlds and build trust through survival.\ \ These tropes create tension, intimacy, and emotional growth while the larger story unfolds.\ \ Why these stories expand the imagination\ \ Speculative fiction does more than entertain. It shifts perspective.\ \ When readers step into worlds built on different assumptions, the systems shaping their own lives become visible. Gender roles, political hierarchies, and family structures reveal themselves as historical constructs rather than permanent truths.\ \ Sapphic speculative fiction takes this imaginative shift even further.\ \ Queer women appear not as side characters but as central figures in the story of the world itself. They lead revolutions. Build communities. Explore unknown territories. Fall in love while reshaping the societies around them.\ \ These stories ask readers to imagine something larger than representation.\ \ They ask us to imagine entirely different ways people live together.\ \ An invitation to explore\ \ If you have not spent time with sapphic speculative fiction, consider this an invitation.\ \ Explore fantasy worlds where magic reshapes power.\ \ Read science fiction that questions identity in future societies.\ \ Look for stories where love grows alongside resistance, exploration, and discovery.\ \ These books stretch the imagination in ways that linger long after the final page.\ \ I am especially interested in reading more sapphic speculative fiction this year.\ \ Which books expanded your worldview?\ \ Which stories stayed with you long after you finished them?\ \ Here is a list of books I've read and books on my TBR!\ \ \ \ Join for free or login

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March TBR! 💐

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Celestial\ \ Steph\ \ • Jan 19

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💭 have you read any books with a second-person narrative?

💭 have you read any books with a second-person narrative?

when it’s done well, I think second person POV is one of the most powerful ways to tell a story! and all of these gutted me in their own way.

📚 books mentioned: - This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone - The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin - Metal from Heaven by August Clarke - The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez

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thank you to Saga Press for the gifted copy!

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Celestial\ \ Steph\ \ • Sep 5 2025

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happy sapphic september!! here are some sapphic books i adore.

happy sapphic september!! here are some sapphic books i adore.

📚 books mentioned: - Fate’s Bane by C.L. Clark - The Blonde Dies First by Joelle Wellington - This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone - The Skin and Its Girl by Sarah Cypher

thank you to Tordotcom and Simon Teen for the gifted copies!

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Celestial\ \ Steph\ \ • Aug 16 2025

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what’s your favorite sci fi sub genre? science fiction books for lifeeee!!

📚 books mentioned: - The Past is Red by Catherynne M. Valente - Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah - An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon - The Stardust Grail by Yume Kitasei - This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone - The Unmapping by Denise S. Robbins - Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir - Kindred by Octavia Butler - The Black God’s Drums by P. Djèlí Clark - The Seep by Chana Porter - Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki - The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson - The Paradox Hotel by Rob Hart - Sunrise: Radiant Stories by Erika Kobayashi

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I’ve absolutely been loving this trend and I had to participate, even if I’m a little bit late to the game (as usual lol)

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Celestial\ \ Steph\ \ • May 11 2025

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THE MOST MAGICAL DAY EVER! here’s the behind-the-scenes story of Kyle’s bookish proposal.

THE MOST MAGICAL DAY EVER! here’s the behind-the-scenes story of Kyle’s bookish proposal. 🥰📚💍

Savannah really is the proposal Santa - and i’m going to share my book haul with you all next!!

also: do not panic, no copies of This is How You Lose the Time War were harmed.

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Celestial\ \ Steph\ \ • May 11 2025

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i’m officially engaged to my best friend!!! 🥹💍🥳

i’m officially engaged to my best friend!!! 🥹💍🥳

we’re going to share ALL the details of Kyle’s proposal-ing in a video very soon, but just know that he crafted the most special moment he possibly could have.

and the BIGGEST shoutout to Savannah at Saga Press (lots of you already know and adore her) who had a hand in his clever trickery!! Kyle proposed in her adorably cozy office, and I left with so many books that we needed to use multiple bags to cart them out of there. 🤭 engagement book haul video also coming soon and i’m not even kidding because i got some VERY VERY exciting books 😂.

i’m excited to share the whole story with you all, but for today we’re just focused on celebrating. thank you to everyone following along on the reading road to rings for your love and support and the sweetest comments!!

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Celestial\ \ Steph\ \ • Jan 5 2025

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book recs based on musicals

🎭 books recs based on your favorite musicals!

(if anyone comments “just read the books they’re actually based on 🙄”, i’m going to reach through the screen and smack you because you’re a theatre person & you should be more creative than that!!!)

📚 books mentioned: - The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings (Wicked) - Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson (Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812) - Fury by Shirley Marr (Heathers) - This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (Hadestown) - All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle (Come From Away) - The Sunbearer Trials (The Lightning Thief)

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Celestial\ \ Steph\ \ • Oct 26 2024

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my nycc experience

a reading road to rings update AND a new york comic con vlog all in one? what an exciting weekend!

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Skies Press\ \ Emma\ \ • Oct 12 2024

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Books I'm bringing on my NYC trip

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