Best Novella, 2020

This Is How You Lose the Time War

Amal El-Mohtar (opens in a new tab) and Max Gladstone (opens in a new tab)

Paperback, 208 pages

Two agents on opposite sides of a war across time leave each other letters, and fall in love.

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