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Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone • This Is How You Lose the Time War
The sun set. The stars rose. (They are a rose, right? Or something? Dante said that.)
Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone • This Is How You Lose the Time War
(Adventure works in any strand—it calls to those who care more for living than for their lives.) They
Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone • This Is How You Lose the Time War
(Adventure works in any strand—it calls to those who care more for living than for their lives.)
Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone • This Is How You Lose the Time War
As the prophet says: Everybody’s building them big ships and boats.
Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone • This Is How You Lose the Time War
It feels harder to write than it should. It feels easier to write than it should, as well.
Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone • This Is How You Lose the Time War
One spared life might be worth more to the other side than all the blood that stained Red’s hands today. A fugitive becomes a queen or a scientist or, worse, a poet.
Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone • This Is How You Lose the Time War
But maybe this is how we win, Red. You and me. This is how we win.
Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone • This Is How You Lose the Time War
Thus we braid Strand 6 to Strand 9, and our glorious crystal future shines so bright I gotta wear shades, as the prophets say.