2020년에 가장 주목받은 SF 장편소설 『당신들은 이렇게 시간 전쟁에서 패배한다』가 출간되었다. 적대적인 두 집단의 엘리트가 시간을 오가는 전쟁 속에서 비밀 편지를 주고받는다는 내용의 『당신들은 이렇게 시간 전쟁에서 패배한다』는, 상상을 초월하는 미래의 이야기를 '편지'라는 아날로그적 도구에 담아내는 독특한 설정과 상상도 못 한 반전 등 흥미로운 전개로 화제를 불러모은 작품이다. SF 팬 모임에서 만난 인연으로 손편지를 주고받으며 우정을 쌓던 아말 엘모흐타르와 맥스 글래드스턴이 「레드」와 「블루」라는 소설 속 각기의 주인공을 맡아 서신을 주고받는 형식으로 이야기를 써내려간 후, 두 이야기를 하나로 합쳐 완성하였다.

WINNER OF The Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novella, the Reddit Stabby Award for Best Novella AND The British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novella

SHORTLISTED FOR
2020 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award
The Ray Bradbury Prize
Kitschies Red Tentacle Award
Kitschies Inky Tentacle
Brave New Words Award

'A fireworks display from two very talented storytellers' Madeline Miller, author of Circe

Co-written by two award-winning writers, This Is How You Lose the Time War is an epic love story spanning time and space.

Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading.

Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future.

Except the discovery of their bond would mean death for each of them. There's still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win that war. That's how war works. Right?

'An intimate and lyrical tour of time, myth and history' John Scalzi, bestselling author of Old Man's War

'Lyrical and vivid and bittersweet' Ann Leckie, Hugo Award-winning author of Ancillary Justice

'Rich and strange, a romantic tour through all of time and the multiverse' Martha Wells, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of The Murderbot Diaries