It’s time for a weekend reading rec! This week’s recommendation is “This is How You Lose the Time War” by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. This sci-fi novella tells the story of two rival agents from opposite empires who travel through time and space to tip the future in their side’s favor. Released in 2019, the book won several science fiction awards and recently shot up to #3 on Amazon, becoming a New York Times bestseller after a popular fan account for the anime Trigun gave it a glowing recommendation. Written as an epistolary novel (a story told through letters), this book features lyrical writing and intense prose, with lines like “I’ll be all of the poets, I’ll kill them all and take each one’s place in turn and every time love’s written about in all of the strands it will be to you.” It’s a quick read, so if you enjoy poetic writing, science fiction, and letters that stretch time and space, be sure to check it out!