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	This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar (Goodreads Author), Max Gladstone (Goodreads Author) 3.85 avg rating — 314,898 ratings — published 2019 — 55 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The River Has Roots 4.01 avg rating — 21,508 ratings — published 2025 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Honey Month by Amal El-Mohtar (Goodreads Author), Oliver Hunter (Illustrator) 4.17 avg rating — 952 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anabasis 3.81 avg rating — 178 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Truth About Owls by Amal El-Mohtar (Goodreads Author), LeVar Burton (Narrator ) 3.97 avg rating — 94 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fire and Ice (Bookburners, #2.7) 4.10 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seasons of Glass and Iron 3.97 avg rating — 37 ratings — expected publication 2026 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wing 3.44 avg rating — 32 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Amal El-Mohtar 2 Books Collection Set it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seasons of Glass and Iron: Stories 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2026 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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I'm writing from a dear friend's dining room table in St Louis, where I'm listening to sparrows, petting a perfect orange cat, and catching my breath. From March 4 to March 8 I was in a different city every day: New York, Portland (Maine), Chapel Hill, Cincinnati, and finally here, meeting booksellers and readers, reconnecting with friends and colleagues, some o

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“I love you. I love you. I love you. I'll write it in waves. In skies. In my heart. You'll never see, but you will know. I'll be all the poets, I'll kill them all and take each one's place in turn, and every time love's written in all the strands it will be to you.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

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“I want to meet you in every place I ever loved. Listen to me. I am your echo. I would rather break the world than lose you.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

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“Books are letters in bottles, cast into the waves of time, from one person trying to save the world to another.”
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Preliminary Poll for February 2021 SCIENCE FICTION BotM

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar

29 votes, 42.6%

Fool's War by Sarah Zettel

18 votes, 26.5%

Revenger by Alastair Reynolds

10 votes, 14.7%

Dauntless by Jack Campbell

5 votes, 7.4%

1632 by Eric Flint

5 votes, 7.4%

The Star Fraction by Ken MacLeod

1 vote, 1.5%

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