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Penpals Across the Timestream

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

May 31, 2022 by sabian30 3 Comments

This is an interesting book told in epistolary (letter) form. It won the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novella (!). Two agents, Red and Blue, working for different time-traveling agencies, start off as adversaries as they travel up and down multiple timelines to defeat each other’s organizations to prevent them from coming into existence. They are immortal and capable of being any creature they wish to be, mostly killers. Sparring with one another across strands of time, they develop a respect and familiarity with […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, Episolary, Hugo, Locus, Nebula, time travel

sabian30's CBR14 Review No:13 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, Episolary, Hugo, Locus, Nebula, time travel ·
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Decent, but a little dry

Downbelow Station (The Company Wars #1) by C.J. Cherryh

February 23, 2019 by TheShitWizard Leave a Comment

Apparently a Hugo award winner, Downbelow Station was part of the huge pile of Christmas book swag that I’ll likely be working my way through for the rest of the year. Not something I’d normally buy for myself, I found it to be an ambitious and pretty impressive piece of sci-fi world-building, but ever so slightly dry in its execution, so I didn’t quite get as into this as I would have liked. In our far distant future, the denizens of Earth have spread outwards […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: c.j. cherryh, Fiction, Hugo, sci-fi, the company wars

TheShitWizard's CBR11 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: c.j. cherryh, Fiction, Hugo, sci-fi, the company wars ·
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